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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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