wave a red flag
Example Sentences
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It’s hard to wave a red flag over someone who keeps on top of their credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2025
But before the vote, he conceded that raising the rate would essentially wave a red flag before the critics of an independent Federal Reserve, in Congress and in the White House.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
“The national statistics really wave a red flag about the timeliness of treatment and the type of treatment for the women who go into the VA.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
“Feel free to write about it, but why go now and wave a red flag in front of bulls?” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2012
For some reason it amused her to wave a red flag, and play with the lordly Severance as with a baited bull, under her mother's cautioning glances.
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
