"keep the flag flying" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> the flag flying"
      },
      "expansion": "keep the flag flying (third-person singular simple present keeps the flag flying, present participle keeping the flag flying, simple past and past participle kept the flag flying)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bridge",
          "orig": "en:Bridge",
          "parents": [
            "Card games",
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Advanced Auction Bridge, page 158",
          "text": "In spite of Y's double and in spite of the fact that the spade suit is not of the slightest use to him, as A cannot get any discards on it, A bids two hearts not only to keep the flag flying and prevent Z from going game but with high hopes that Y's double is a bluff.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 147, page 96",
          "text": "[…] all I know is that to keep the flag flying is an accepted part of bridge, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_the_flag_flying-en-verb-ocgXVa6N",
      "links": [
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bridge) To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "flag-flying"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "bridge",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep the flag flying"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept the flag flying",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> the flag flying"
      },
      "expansion": "keep the flag flying (third-person singular simple present keeps the flag flying, present participle keeping the flag flying, simple past and past participle kept the flag flying)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "flag-flying"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Bridge"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Advanced Auction Bridge, page 158",
          "text": "In spite of Y's double and in spite of the fact that the spade suit is not of the slightest use to him, as A cannot get any discards on it, A bids two hearts not only to keep the flag flying and prevent Z from going game but with high hopes that Y's double is a bluff.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 147, page 96",
          "text": "[…] all I know is that to keep the flag flying is an accepted part of bridge, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bridge) To bid more or less rashly in order to liven up the game."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "bridge",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep the flag flying"
}