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crack the flags

verb

Etymology

See flag (“a flagstone”); the idea is that the extreme heat might cause paving-stones to split.

Definitions

  1. Of the sun or sunshine

    Of the sun or sunshine: to beat down very strongly; to be extremely hot.

    • Early summer sunshine threatened to crack the flags outside.
    • I was apprehensive, feeling butterflies, pissed, the sun cracking the flags.
    • […] plus the sun was still cracking the flags as we headed back to Geneva.

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