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WHITE FLAG

WHITE FLAG
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an all-white banner or piece of cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce. When one "runs up (raises) a white flag" it means they are giving up, weakening or yielding. And the only way you can slow it down is be sure he won't tell you; be certain that it is the pc who is withholding it from you; be absolutely certain that it's only through the greatest of chicanery that you will eventually be able to trap him into a point where he has to run up a white flag and surrender with sword hilts reversed, you see? - Wrong Target, Sec Check (29 June 61) an all-white banner or piece of cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce. When one "runs up (raises) a white flag" it means they are giving up, weakening or yielding.a white banner or cloth held up as a sign that one wants a truce or is willing to surrender.