flag fall

noun

1. the minimum charge for hiring a taxi, to which the rate per kilometre is added

Example Sentences

"Sit down! You have completely failed to understand a soldier's duty! The greatest honor for any soldier is to die for his country rather than to let the flag fall. For the flag represents the Fatherland—and if the flag falls, Germany falls! Is that what you want?"

From Literature

In the final edit of the video you will see the flag fall to reveal what is behind it but will never see it on the ground.

From The Guardian

We won't see the best of him until it's flat to the boards from flag fall, that's Overturn.

From The Guardian

And, when the man was killed, my papa would not let the flag fall, but took it in his own hands.

From Project Gutenberg

This had proved a source of deep grief to his parents; not because the pecuniary support they had derived from him, up to the fall of Fort Sumter, was now cut off, greatly to their distress,—for they were poor,—but because, when he saw the Union flag fall at Charleston, he had written home that it was a glorious sight; and they knew that the love of his wife, and the love of his property, had made him a traitor to his country.

From Project Gutenberg