Companies in the UK are finding it useful to wrap themselves in the British flag.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
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
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) (Dorking School… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
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drape — [[t]dre͟ɪp[/t]] drapes, draping, draped 1) VERB If you drape a piece of cloth somewhere, you place it there so that it hangs down in a casual and graceful way. [V n prep] Natasha took the coat and draped it over her shoulders... [V n prep] A soft … English dictionary
drape — 1 verb (T) 1 to cover or decorate something with folds of cloth: drape sth over/around etc sth: Jack emerged with a towel draped around him. | drape sth with/in etc sth: a coffin draped in the national flag 2 to let something hang or lie… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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