Usually means: Succeeding with very high marks.
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  1. flying colors: Merriam-Webster
  2. flying colors: Vocabulary.com
  3. flying colors: Wordnik
  4. flying colors: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  5. flying colors: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Flying colors, flying colors: Dictionary.com
  7. Flying Colors (Flying Colors album), Flying Colors (Trooper album), Flying Colors (band), Flying Colors (musical), Flying Colors, Flying colors: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. flying colors: Rhymezone
  9. flying colors: FreeDictionary.org
  10. flying colors: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. Flying Colors: The Word Detective
  12. flying colors: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. flying colors: Wiktionary

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  1. flying colors: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Flying colors)

noun:  Alternative spelling of flying colours. [(usually in the phrase with flying colours) Great success.]

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