flying colors
Example Sentences
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The week was punctuated by tests, all of which the ship passed with flying colors.
As a healthy nurse, she had always done the tests along with the patients, and passed with flying colors.
From Seattle Times
Another conclusion is that this was the ultimate stress test of the vaccines and they passed with flying colors: Only about 1.6 percent were infected, just seven were hospitalized, and no one died.
From Washington Post
If they have timed it right, then Noah is going to come through the trials with flying colors.
From Washington Post
In the past six years, Satouf has learned Danish, graduated from high school with flying colors and is now studying to be a nurse while working in a supermarket.
From Washington Times
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