nail（或pin）one's colours to the mast

nail（或pin）one's colours to the mast declare openly and firmly what one believes or favours 公布信仰; 表示坚决支持： they nailed their colours to the mast of youth revolt. 他们公开表示坚决支持青年人的反叛。

• isohyets
• follicle cell
• subduction zone
• endosporic
• melillas
• excess of arc
• square-headeds
• couvades
• linear power amplifier
• loincloths
• tropaeolaceaes
• acid halide
• lysenkoisms
• biopsychological
• celibacy
• cease and desist
• peat-sapropel
• Mithraicism
• sgd.
• metalinguistics
• solvability
• oomiac
• Babelized
• endosmotic
• bear's -grease
• great tits
• p.m.
• on full pay
• out of character
• nitrogen trichlorides
• sodium gold cyanide
• deaced
• detail files
• soap down
• caviars
• ladder-back chairs
• documentation meeting
• ill-naturedly
• brake band
• talk shop
• protectional
• creative Marxism
• chalcedonians
• testamur
• dicetyl
• serbias
• glauconites
• assayers
• whitocap
• dynamic oceanography
• raceways
• overbudgeting
• circumventive
• loellingites
• at all events
• distilled
• madzoon
• daguerreotypers
• temperance
• times
• chiliad
• peripheral insufflation
• nigiri-zushi
• thuddingly
• reactive current
• conceitednesses
• floatplane
• knees knocking (together)
• information separator
• lorrying
• seminomad
• harried
• local time
• taxations
• block of stamps
• parkades
• monotropy
• valiums
• flight lieutenants
• belly fiddle
• black diet
• consumer magazine
• Chicago style
• Prior, Matthew
• inedita
• gold therapy
• send for sb / sth
• lintier
• Portakabin
• chronogrammatica
• scopate
• encircled by
• trudgings
• as thick as two （short） planks （或as a plank）
• fremd
• take leg bail
• tangencies
• homogeneous atmosphere
• Witt
• go to town (on sth)