strike one's colors
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strike one's colors (third-person singular simple present strikes one's colors, present participle striking one's colors, simple past struck one's colors, past participle struck one's colors or stricken one's colors)
- Alternative form of strike one's flag
- 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
- Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have[sic] overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.