Hanging limp

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The flags along the road are hanging limp.Please explain to me what it means.

Mr Wordy · Accepted Answer

A flag hanging limp:

Avangi · Answer

It describes the absence of anything to give the object a definite shape. It can be internal or external.
In the case of a flag, it would probably be external. Someone is holding the flag outstretched; the flag is lying on a table; a stiff breeze is extending the flag outward from a flagpole.

If we say a person's arms are hanging limp, we mean that his muscles are completely relaxed, so that if someone pushed on his arm, it would move, not resisting the pressure.
"Hanging limp" = "hanging loose" = "dangling."

Of course a light breeze would cause the flag to continually change shapes.

It's hanging limp when nothing is exerting an influence on it, either to move or to remain motionless.

User_gary · Answer

Thanks a lot Wordy and Avangi. You are always brilliant.

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