"Colors" in that setting is another word for flag, so it means that you are displaying your flag. The flag would tell anyone looking what nationality you are, which was quite important during the early days of international trading, when piracy, and fights were common.
If the Standard flag is hoisted high outside Buckhingham Palace it means that the Queen is in the residence.
it means that colorful girls are working in that hotel reception :)
Hoist is what you do to haul something up.
Hoisted means threw.Definitions of hoist on the Web: * raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" * move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table" * raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail" * lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objectswordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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You're probably looking for "Hoisted by your own petard".
1. The cheerleader hoisted her teamate in the air. 2. Can you hoist me over the fence? 3. "Give me a leg!" " What?" " Hoist me up!" i want 2 know. that kool dude ;) --- modernwarfare
The Stanley Cup.
The Australian flag was not hoisted by Captain Cook. There was no country known as Australia then, and at this stage, Cook was a Lieutenant. Cook hoisted the British flag to show he was claiming the eastern half of the continent for the British Empire. He then returned to England.
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