red rag

Example Sentences

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"That was a red rag to a bull" she explains.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025

“Azov was like a red rag for them,” he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Writing about millennials online is like a red rag to a bull – a bull that specifically loves to procrastinate by getting angry with strangers.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2018

Such an agreement would be far simpler, limited largely to tariff reduction, and would not be known as “TTIP”, a red rag to anti-globalisation protesters.

From Reuters • May 16, 2018

Each time someone arrives to eat dinner, he waves the red rag to guide the customer into a parking space, like a ground crew member ushering a jetliner to a gate.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario