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Definition of Flying colors
1. Noun. Complete success. "They passed inspection with flying colors"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Colors
Literary usage of Flying colors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Four Years Under Marse Robert by Robert Stiles (1903)
"... Lose Self-control and Fire into Each Other—In the Bloody Fight of the 6th at
Sailor's Creek, the Battalion Redeems Itself, Goes Down with flying colors, ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"flying colors. Colors unfurled and left to wave in the air. Hence to return or
come off with flying colors is to be victorious, to get the better. ..."
3. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865 edited by Frank Moore (1882)
"... the whole of the division advanced in line of hattle, with flying colors, the
officers leading the men, as if in real action, to avenge the insult. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"flying colors.—Flags unfurled and waving in the ... To come off with flying colors
menns to be victorious or to succeed thoroughly in an undertaking. ..."
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