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
O'Brian was fascinated with feints and deceptions, with warships that disguise themselves or fly false colors.
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 was sternly determined to see 185 the false colors stripped from Natalie Weyman, whom she despised for a just reason which no one but herself knew.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline
