wave the white flag
Signal you're done
To wave the white flag is to signal surrender or concede defeat.
The phrase comes from the battlefield practice of displaying a white flag to request a truce.
In everyday use, it means giving up on a struggle or argument: After three hours of negotiation, she finally waved the white flag and accepted their terms.
Yield under pressure
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- submitPresent for consideration
- concedeAdmit something reluctantly
- give inCease resistance, concede
lay down arms · acquiesce · relinquish · forfeit · resign · succumb · cede · abandon
Agreed halt to hostilities
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- parleyDiscussion between opposing sides
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
mediation · compromise · settlement · terms · negotiating · dialogue · reconciliation · détente
Antiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- coexistenceSimultaneous presence together
disarmament · amity · serenity · resolution · demilitarization · nonaggression · peacekeeping · rapprochement
capitulate
Yield under pressure
give in · lay down arms · acquiesce · relinquish · forfeit · resign · succumb · cede · abandon · relent
truce
Agreed halt to hostilities
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- parleyDiscussion between opposing sides
diplomacy · mediation · compromise · settlement · terms · negotiating · dialogue · reconciliation · détente · talks
pacifism
Antiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
coexistence · disarmament · amity · serenity · resolution · demilitarization · nonaggression · peacekeeping · rapprochement
vanquished
Defeated completely
routed · subdued · crushed · overpowered · loss · failure · downfall · collapse · capitulation · humiliation
wave the white flagfight on
Continue resisting or struggling
stand one's ground · dig in · soldier on · hold the line · keep fighting
wave the white flagdeclare war
Formally announce military action
throw down the gauntlet · take up arms · escalate · attack · draw first blood
wave, waving, waviness, white, whiten, whitened, whitening, whiteness, whites