false colors
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O'Brian was fascinated with feints and deceptions, with warships that disguise themselves or fly false colors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A boat was sent from the Alabama, and as the boarding officer gained the whaler’s deck, the cruiser dropped her false colors, and ran up the Confederate flag.
From Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Goodrich, Albert M.
