false colors
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Was that because he flew false colors himself?
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
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
Humph! that's a temptation to sail under false colors that most of my kin would thank'ee for.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
