It means easily passing something, like a test, almost definitely getting a high A.
to pass ( an exam ) with high scores.
"Flying colors" is the term when a knight flies his colorful banner to announce his presence, usually when he was victorious in battle.
This isn't an idiom - it's talking about some animal with their tail held high, flying behind them.
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
flying colours
idiom means expression like a page in a book
Simply its mean a bully.
This isn't an idiom - it's talking about some animal with their tail held high, flying behind them.
It means to be patriotic (by reference to flying the flag).
Flying Colours Airlines was created in 1996.
It is not an idiom - it is a line from an old television cartoon called Rocky and Bullwinkle. Rocky was a flying squirrel. (Bullwinkle was a moose).
The cast of Flying Colours - 1991 includes: Noah Gettings as Timothy
The image here is of something flying up and getting right in front of your face. It means that whatever it is goes against what you would traditionally expect. "Flying in the face of facts" would mean that whatever is going on does so against the facts.
Flying Colours - Chris de Burgh album - was created in 1988.
A flying start is one where you are already flying - you're really moving fast and if you keep going, you'll win the race. It means you're starting off very well.
Yes, a common idiom in "The Flying Trunk" by Hans Christian Andersen is "out of the trunk" which means a surprising or unexpected development. This idiom is used when the trunk in the story unexpectedly flies to various destinations.
"She passed the test with flying colours." or "she scored an 80 on her final exam, passing her test with flying colours."
Flying Colours - Bliss n Eso album - was created on 2008-04-26.
No, it is a descriptive phrase coined in the 1950's to describe a UFO shape. A pilot described an object he saw flying overhead, and said it looked like two saucers placed together. The media coined the phrase "flying saucers" from this.