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It means that a test was successfully completed very easily, or passed by a wide margin.
The idiom comes from the age of sail, when battling warships would lower or strike their colors (flags) to surrender, so that the victor was the ship left with flags still triumphantly flying (waving).
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Be as easy as flying colors?
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