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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Nail One's Colours to the Mast

(To). To refuse to surrender. When the colours are nailed to the mast they cannot be lowered in proof of submission.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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