flying colours
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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She passed the fitness and cognitive tasks with flying colours.
From BBC • May 23, 2024
But the Kiwi coach will know that passing the group stage with flying colours is one thing -from now on, knockout rugby means there is no margin for error.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2023
"I found it quite easy. I revised the theory questions and what they meant too, so I passed with flying colours and I then passed the practical test too."
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2022
Suffolk Coroner's Court in Ipswich heard Miss Pepper had passed her theory exams on the EasyJet programme in Oxford with "flying colours" and had gone to Belgium for her instrument ratings.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2022
I have often heard of American singers who could "bluff" or "hypnotize" directors into giving them chances which they thought they were entitled to, and from which they always emerged with flying colours.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen
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