Timeline for Hail vs flag down [closed]
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| Mar 13, 2023 at 14:29 | vote | accept | Majid Abdolhosseini | ||
| Mar 12, 2023 at 13:59 | history | closed |
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 16:06 | answer | added | DJClayworth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 9:02 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | There's an old joke - "What's worse than 'raining cats and dogs'?" - "Hailing taxis." | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 5:47 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | All of these sound fine to my Western American ears. The difference between hail and flag down is in what lengths you must go to in order to get attention. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 4:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 4:27 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | @alphabet I'm a little hesitant to extend this thread, because it seems that OP's question is being answered in comments, but I wonder how "flag" (without "down") compares to the other two options. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 2:45 | history | edited | alphabet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2023 at 0:58 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | One never places a space before terminal punctuation in English, be those question marks or exclamation points or full stops/periods. | |
| Mar 10, 2023 at 0:28 | comment | added | alphabet | Ngram Viewer says (FWIW) that "hail a taxi" is more common than "flag down a taxi" in both BrE and AmE. Odd, because this use of "hail" strikes me as more old-fashioned. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 23:35 | comment | added | Weather Vane | You can flag down any vehicle if you have a need to (for example your car has broken down), but 'hail' is specifically for a taxi. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 23:26 | comment | added | Weather Vane | You might beckon a waiter, if they want to see you. If not, I suppose you could rustle one up :) They can often see a note coming out of your pocket. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 23:19 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Your choice on the taxi, but the smallest gesture will do as cruising cabbies are already on the lookout for fares. The language of hailing or flagging down is 100 years old. One finger will do. No, not that one. | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 22:50 | history | edited | KillingTime | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 9, 2023 at 22:48 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Mar 9, 2023 at 22:48 | history | asked | Majid Abdolhosseini | CC BY-SA 4.0 |