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FLYING COLOURS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flying colours mean?
• FLYING COLOURS (noun)
The noun FLYING COLOURS has 1 sense:
1. complete success
Familiarity information: FLYING COLOURS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Complete success
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
flying colors; flying colours
Context example:
they passed inspection with flying colors
Hypernyms ("flying colours" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
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