Verb: pass with flying colors
Usage: US (elsewhere: pass with flying colours)
Usage: US (elsewhere: pass with flying colours)
- Succeed decisively or with distinction
"You will pass with flying colors";
- breeze through [informal], ace, sweep through, sail through, nail [informal], pass with flying colours [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: passing with flying colors, passed with flying colors, passes with flying colors
Type of: make it, make the grade [N. Amer], pass
Encyclopedia: Pass with flying colors