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English Phrase: Raise a red flag
The term raise a red flag means you should be alert when something indicates danger or a potentially hazardous situation.
If you are on a hike and notice an alligator, a crocodile or something that even resembles an alligator or crocodile, that should make you more alert and on your guard.
You need to either proceed with extreme caution or turn around and go back to safety.
When overseas, we can meet a lot of friendly people.
The thing is that we don’t know them very well.
We should always be on our guard and choose our friends wisely.
Let’s imagine that you are on a working holiday.
You are invited to a ‘friend’s’ house for supper and notice some white powder lying around.
Now, immediately, the presence of an unknown white powder should raise some huge red flags for you.
As they say, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Overseas, while cannabis is gradually becoming more accepted, other illegal drugs are not.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 69.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
