Usually means: Achieving success with great distinction.
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  1. flying colours: Collins English Dictionary
  2. flying colours: Vocabulary.com
  3. flying colours: Dictionary.com
  4. Flying Colours (Bliss n Eso album), Flying Colours (Chris de Burgh album), Flying Colours (Shad album), Flying Colours (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. flying colours: Rhymezone
  6. Flying Colours: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. flying colours: FreeDictionary.org
  8. flying colours: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. flying colours: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. flying colours: Wiktionary

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noun:  (usually in the phrase with flying colours) Great success.

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