Green flag, that’s a ____ at this stage: 1. Go ahead; originally based on the waving of such a flag at the beginning or resumption of a motor race. 2. Rather annoying use of Grand Prix vocabulary to imbue humdrum business approvals with a touch of Formula One glamour; implication that everything is a fuel-injected race of some kind; as ever, propagated by plump salesmen who spent far too much of their youth playing with toy cars, but not learning how to drive them very well. (see Green light; Greenlit)