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idiomcolours/colorscolours is the British spelling, and colors is the American spelling.do sth with flying colours/colorsif someone completes an examination or test with flying colours, they are very successful in it:Sheila took her final exams this summer, and passed with flying colours.We were developing a new car, which had come through its first safety checks with flying colors.nail your colours to the mast BrEBrEto say publicly and definitely that you support a particular person, idea etc, although it may make you unpopular:I felt that it was time to stand up and nail my colours to the mast.Many film-makers are afraid to nail their colours to the mast of gay politics.Note Ships use flags or colours to show other ships who they are and where they come from. The colours are raised at the start of a battle to show that the ship intends to fight. If colours were nailed to the mast (=the pole that the sails hang from) they could not be taken down to admit defeat. show/reveal (yourself in) your true colours BrEBrEshow your true colors AmEto let people see your true feelings or opinions about a subject, after you have been hiding them:By refusing even to discuss race relations, the chairman has shown us his true colors.At this point I must reveal myself in my true colours, as an old-fashioned moralist.see sb in their true colours/colors: Once again we see the socialists in their true colours - telling other people how to run their lives.
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