run up a flagpole vs talk over

run up a flagpole

talk over

verb
  • To discuss; to converse about a matter or issue. 

  • To persuade (someone); to talk around. 

  • To verbally interrupt (someone); to speak at the same time as someone else. 

How often have the words run up a flagpole and talk over occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )