Synonyms for flying colors


Grammar : Noun


Définition of flying colors

  • noun thoroughly successful
Example sentences :
  • Mr. Gallatin closed his four years of administration with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « Albert Gallatin » by John Austin Stevens
  • He had fought a duel and had come out of it with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath
  • John admitted that he could carry off the affair with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « The Opened Shutters » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • But she need not have been alarmed, for she came through with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « Linda Carlton, Air Pilot » by Edith Lavell
  • You have missed only one question, and you go in with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « Helen Grant's Schooldays » by Amanda M. Douglas
  • At college Rex had carried off the honors with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « Daisy Brooks » by Laura Jean Libbey
  • All I can say is that in my day I'd have got you through with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « Over the Plum Pudding » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • This is a fine mess, but well soon be out of it with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country » by Janet Aldridge
  • Besides, Garry's all right: he's coming out of it with flying colors!
  • Extract from : « The Salamander » by Owen Johnson
  • Thus was I enabled to retire from the field with flying colors.
  • Extract from : « John Bull, Junior » by Max O'Rell

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