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'''''Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it''''' is a [[catchphrase]] which became popular in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s.<ref>((cite web
 |url=https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/run-it-up-the-flagpole
 |title=Run it up the flagpole
 |date=2018-06-03
 |access-date=2021-04-27
 )), article citing two 1957 sources</ref> It means "to present an idea tentatively and see whether it receives a favorable reaction." It is now considered a [[cliché]]. Sometimes it is used seriously, but more often it is used humorously, with the intention that it be recognized as both hackneyed and outdated. A non-joking equivalent would be "to send up a trial balloon."

The phrase was associated with the advertising agencies then located on [[Madison Avenue]] in [[City of New York|New York]], and with the "men in the grey flannel suits".((clarify|date=December 2020)) Comedians,((which|date=December 2020)) when mocking corporate culture, were certain to use it, along with expressions such as ''the whole ball of wax'' and the use of invented words ending in ''-wise'' (e.g. "We've had a good year, revenuewise").

The phrase was also used as an ice breaker between serious moments in the motion picture ''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]'' starring [[Henry Fonda]]. The line was delivered by Juror no. 12, an advertising executive played by [[Robert Webber]].

In [[Stan Freberg]]'s 1961 comedy album, ''[[Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume One: The Early Years]]'', General [[George Washington]], after having just received the [[Betsy Ross flag|nation's new flag]] from seamstress [[Betsy Ross]], announces that he'll just "run it up the flagpole... see if anyone salutes."

[[Allan Sherman]] captured the essence of this [[meme]] in his 1963 parody of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s "When I Was a Lad". In Sherman's lyrics, the narrator joins an advertising firm:

((poem quote|I worked real hard for the dear old firm,
I learned most every advertising term.
I said to the men in the dark gray suits,
"Let's run it up the flagpole and see who salutes."))

The group [[Harvey Danger]] used the phrase in their 1997 song "[[Flagpole Sitta]]":
((poem quote|Fingertips have memories,
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
(But no one ever does)))

As it became hackneyed, it got a second life as a launching point for the invention of joking variations, such as "Let's drop it in the pool and see if it makes a splash", "Let's throw it against the wall and see if it sticks", "Let's put it in a saucer and see if the cat licks it up", and "Let's put it on the five-fifteen and see if it gets off at Westport" (i.e.,  let's put it on a New York City commuter train and find out whether it is destined for [[Westport, Connecticut]], a town thought to be the home of many successful executives).

==See also==
* [[Trial balloon]]

==References==
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