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Flag of Distress
A card at one's window announcing “lodgings” or “board and
lodgings.” The allusion is evident. A flag reversed, hoisted with the
union downwards.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Flag of Distress from Infoplease:
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