Jewish flag

English

Etymology

Sense 2 alludes to the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.

Noun

Jewish flag (plural Jewish flags)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish,‎ flag.
   • 1944, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Jewish National Home in Palestine: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, page 339:

     Jews in Palestine have appealed for the right to form a separate Jewish Army under a Jewish flag. This community, built up by the toil and sacrifice of decades is now in mortal danger and, as freemen everywhere, have not only the […]

   • 2010 January 1, Ronald L. Eisenberg, Jewish Traditions: A JPS Guide, Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 577:

     The combination of blue and white as the colors of the Jewish flag was derived from an 1860 poem (“Judah's Colors”) by Austrian Ludwig August Frankl, which explained that the blue symbolized “the splendors of the firmament,” and the […]

   • 2021 May 4, Avinoam Patt, The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:

     As American Jews grappled with the questions of patriotism, Communism, and Zionism after the war, the blue Jewish flag would also be translated into dramatic representations of the Jewish struggle against oppression.

2. (US, slang, ethnic slur) A dollar bill.
   • 1921, Adventure, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 129:

     Four Jewish flags I blow, four lovely bucks.

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “Jewish flag”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury