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Brewer's: Blue Flag
He has hoisted the blue flag. He has turned publican or fishmonger, in allusion to the blue apron at one time worn by publicans, and still worn by fishmongers.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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