Flying Colors

Definition: Flying Colors

Flying Colors

Noun

1. Complete success; "they passed inspection with flying colors".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Flying Colors

Ostentation

Demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets; (celebration); pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; f_te, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant.

Adverb: with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with flying colors.

Success

Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.

Adverb: successfully; Adjective: well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose; to one's heart's content.

Trophy

Triumph; (celebration); flying colors; (show).

Flying Colors (1917)

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Books

• Flying Colors (reference)

• Passing Classes with Flying Colors (reference)

• With Flying Colors (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Flying Colors (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "flying colors": pass with flying colors ♦ To come off with flying colors ♦ with flying colors. Additional references.

Greek 

νίκη (vanquishment, victoriousness, victory, win), επιτυχία (good job, hit, stardom, success, successfulness). (various references)

Hungarian

sikeresen (auspiciously, successfully, to see sg through, with flying colors, without fail), győztesen (victoriously, with flying colors). (various references)

Pig Latin

yingflay olorscay

Russian 

блеск (brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, effulgence, flash, glint, glitter, glitz, gloss, lambency, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, resplendency, scintillation, sheen, sheens, shine, shininess, splendor, splendour). (various references)

Acerodon, Exocoetus volitans, Pteropus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Flying Colors" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flying colours. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: colorings, floorings, scrolling.

-4 letters: collying, coloring, cooingly, criollos, flooring, inscroll, losingly, orcinols, rollings, roofings, sinology.

-5 letters: closing, cloying, collins, cooling, cornily, cosying, criollo, florins, flyings, fooling, forcing, frolics, girosol, glorify, glycins, glycols, goofily, isogony, locoing, logions, loosing, orcinol, rolfing, rolling, roofing, roosing, rosinol, scorify, scoring, scrying, signory, soloing.