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FLYING COLORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flying colors mean? 

FLYING COLORS (noun)
  The noun FLYING COLORS has 1 sense:

1. complete successplay

  Familiarity information: FLYING COLORS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLYING COLORS (noun)


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 colors" 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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