تعريف raise the flag and see who salutes في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
To float an idea, (or otherwise do some action) to see what response or controversy (if any) it generates, usually as a preliminary step
Much of the discourse on and the spirit of group interaction have an improvisational flavor: we “float trial balloons” in the groups we belong to or “raise a flag and see who salutes.”.