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flying colours

NOUN
  1. complete success
    they passed inspection with flying colors

How To Use flying colours In A Sentence

  • I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. Chapter 29
  • A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours.
  • At 20, he graduated with flying colours and returned his motherland to dedicate his talents.
  • Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.
  • Our team came off with flying colours I the football match.
  • Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
  • The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
  • The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours. Times, Sunday Times
  • In spite of her worries, she passed the exam with flying colours.
  • Please honour your agreement by working until the project is finished with flying colours.
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