Trade follows the Flag
.Colonies promote the trade of the mother country. The reference is to the custom of planting the flag of the mother country in every colony.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.