raise the flag and see who salutes

Meaning: (idiomatic)Tofloatan idea, (or otherwise do some action) to see what response orcontroversy(if any) it generates, usually as a preliminary step.1996, Jo Ann Oravec,Virtual individuals, virtual groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking,page312:Much of the discourse on and the spirit of group interaction have an improvisational flavor: we “float trial balloons” in the groups we belong to or “raise a flag and see who salutes.”

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