flying colors
Use Flying colors in a sentenceflying colors
noun
overwhelming victory; triumph; success: He passed the test with flying colors.
Origin:
1700–10
1700–10
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| flying colors | |
noun | |
| complete success; "they passed inspection with flying colors" |
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Flying colors
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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