freak flag

freak flag

Any unconventional, nonconformist, or uninhibited behavior, convictions, opinions, or lifestyle choices that are unique to an individual. My high school literature teacher taught me to always be true to myself and to wear my freak flag proudly.
See also: flag, freak
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fly (one's) freak flag
  • high jinks
  • kookish
  • quot homines tot sententiae
  • tot
  • kook
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • get you him, her
  • get you!
References in periodicals archive
He said: "There's a song in it called 'Let Your Freak Flag Fly'.
That's the joy of it - let your freak flag fly." And that's something writer Lisa is happy to have achieved.
The Grammys have long been an opportunity for music stars to let their fashion freak flag fly, so much so that in 2013, the TV network broadcasting the show sent out a missive requesting attendees made sure that breasts and buttocks were adequately covered.
Rachel Weisz The Grammys have long been an opportunity for music stars to let their fashion freak flag fly, so much so that in 2013, the TV network broadcasting the show sent out a missive requesting attendees made sure that breasts and buttocks were adequately covered.
One celebrated its cerebral nature in its very title while the other was a clearinghouse for information on how to not just hand-weave your freak flag but fly it proudly over some barren patch of a hippie Eden.
No, that's not true, although there's really no telling with this show, a soap not afraid to let its freak flag fly.
Nearly two decades later, she's still flying that freak flag, and people are still flocking towards her in droves.
Being in a very Irish Catholic, Republican area, my community theater taught me at an early age that it's OK to stand out and let your freak flag fly.
As a bona fide dope-smoking hippie, I had decided that it was no longer cool to be isputing, and taking Crosby, Stills and Nash's advice, decided to let my freak flag fly.
The reference to left handed thread and butt plugs leaves little to the imagination especially when positioned beneath the "rainbow" that can be seen as the multi colored "freak flag" (think of David Crosby singing "I feel like letting my freak flag fly!" in his song "I almost cut my hair") of sexual equality.
(Of course if being yourself in all ways is what is most important to you, by all means let your freak flag fly.
But I think I've been less afraid to let my freak flag fly a little bit -- it has waved gloriously in the wind -- and it's been fun.''
Fans of the freak flag are apparently multiplying-evidence of which would be the fact that Gou Miyagi's part from Heroin's Video Nasty racked up a million views in a three short days at thrashermagazine.com.
In the process, we also meet the rest of the bridesmaid crew--Rita (Wendy McLendonCovey), a frustrated wife and mother who sees the wedding as a brief escape from her male-dominated life; Becca (Ellie Kemper), an uptight newly-wed who yearns to let her freak flag fly; and Megan (Melissa McCarthy), whose lack of tact provides some of the film's biggest laughs.
Attempts to ridicule the dissidents as a "mob" or people "flying their freak flag" didn't address the obvious clarity of their anger over political corruption, corporate greed, and income inequality--perfectly captured in the slogan: "We are the 99%." The GOP official who first hurled the charge of "class warfare" was doser to the mark.