drape in the flag

drape in the flag
drape/wrap (yourself) in the flag to pretend to do something for your country when you are really doing it for your own advantage.

Companies in the UK are finding it useful to wrap themselves in the British flag.


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  • drape yourself in the flag — drape/wrap (yourself) in the flag to pretend to do something for your country when you are really doing it for your own advantage. Companies in the UK are finding it useful to wrap themselves in the British flag …   New idioms dictionary

  • wrap in the flag — drape/wrap (yourself) in the flag to pretend to do something for your country when you are really doing it for your own advantage. Companies in the UK are finding it useful to wrap themselves in the British flag …   New idioms dictionary

  • wrap yourself in the flag — drape/wrap (yourself) in the flag to pretend to do something for your country when you are really doing it for your own advantage. Companies in the UK are finding it useful to wrap themselves in the British flag …   New idioms dictionary

  • wrap yourself in the flag — If someone wraps themselves in the flag, they pretend to be doing something for patriotic reasons or out of loyalty, but their real motives are selfish. ( Drape yourself in the flag is an alternative form of this idiom) …   The small dictionary of idiomes

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