red flag

red flag

A sign or signal indicating potential, incipient, or imminent danger or trouble. There are a couple of red flags you need to look out for to make sure your company stays in the black. Well, it definitely raised a red flag when he got so angry at me over such a minor thing, but I never thought he could be so unreasonable to live with!
See also: flag, red
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a red flag

mainly AMERICAN
You call something that gives a warning of a bad or dangerous situation or event a a red flag. These are devices that are necessary components of nuclear weapons, and clearly that has raised a red flag in the minds of a lot of people. Cholesterol was the red flag that alerted millions of Americans to the fact that diet really does matter. Compare with a red flag before a bull.
See also: flag, red
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • a red flag
  • raise a red flag
  • on red alert
  • pull (someone or something) out of the fire
  • pull out of the fire
  • pull (someone's) bacon out of the fire
  • a/the sword of Damocles hangs over (one's) head
  • Damocles
  • Damocles' sword hangs over (one)
  • Damocles' sword hangs over (one's) head
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In short, if an investment advisory firm has the capacity to withdraw funds from client accounts and transfer those funds to unrelated third parties (commonly defined as having custody), that firm generally has a "transaction account" and therefore meets the definition of a "financial institution" for the purposes of the updated red flag requirements.
After identifying employees exhibiting these characteristics and red flags, the next step in proving fraudulent employee behavior is to perform a fraud risk assessment, including an internal control analysis involving the identified employees' job duties, authorities and access and control of assets.
A trade creditor that does not fall into any one of these categories is not a "creditor" under the "Red Flags" Rules.
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If department personnel detect red flags, the draft policy outlines steps they should take to prevent identity theft such as contacting the customer to verify information, closing an account, or notifying law enforcement.
EXHIBIT Sample Matrix Risk Analysis Red Flags Normal Audit First Additional Audit Second Additional Program Procedure Audit Procedure Steps Red Flag 1 11, 23, 34 No additional responses deemed necessary due to risk reduction by identified normal audit program steps.
The Red Flag Alert has been used as an internal resource for the past five years by Begbies which specialises in insolvencies and includes a Liverpool office in Old Hall Street.
It does not say what a red flag is, what possible responses are, or who should do the training.
A senior leader of the OtjikaTjamuaha Royal House (Red Flag Regiment), Mbajoroka Kambausuka called on Ovaherero communities to unite and do away with the on-going fighting amongst themselves irrespective of the group they represent.
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The still-emerging plan would create a federal grant program to encourage states to adopt "red flag" laws to take guns away from people believed to be a danger to themselves or others.
Called Raise the Red Flag, and backed by British Airways, it will also help animal lovers to avoid visiting offending places - both in the UK and abroad.