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flag-waving Noun Informal an emotional appeal to patriotic feeling
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| If flag-waving is viewed as a show of patriotism or harmless jingoism in other countries, it conjures up very different memories in Germany. For some of us, last year's appeals court ruling concerning the content of the Pledge of Allegiance was a welcome infusion of common sense into a national climate of patriotic zeal and flag-waving conformity. Their campaigns announced that, and I'm conflating wildly here, they were not in favor of gay marriage, despite having gay relatives, but they were in favor of civil unions and they hated that little upstart Confederate flag-waving front-running Vermont governor for bringing the whole thing up in the first place. |
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flag-waving - fanatically patriotic