false colors
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Was that because he flew false colors himself?
From Time Magazine Archive
O'Brian was fascinated with feints and deceptions, with warships that disguise themselves or fly false colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I.
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
Yet how could I receive attention and kindness under these false colors?
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
