under false colors

Idioms  

1. see false colors.

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Example Sentences

She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hoped, too, and trembled while the thought flitted through his mind, that no one in the room would speak his name, for it was his turn to sail under false colors now.

From Rodney The Partisan by Castlemon, Harry

"He's not a fellow to sail under false colors, but he might still have some delicacy in telling about it—" "He has told me all," said Tom, dryly.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

I was under false colors for a long while and I hated it as much as anyone could.

From The Man Next Door by Hough, Emerson

I don’t wish to tell Miss Archer, yet it’s not fair to either of us that you should masquerade under false colors.

From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline