false colors
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Was that because he flew false colors himself?
From Time Magazine Archive
The action of the book moves about the peeling off, in successive layers, of Waring's false colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I.
From Time Magazine Archive
He promptly hoisted the French flag and under these false colors sailed boldly past the British war boats guarding Gibraltar into the Mediterranean.
From Time Magazine Archive
If false colors are carried we must find it out because they carry no notice to warn us.
From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.
