flying colors

The resulting authenticity passed the verisimilitude test with flying colors.

Ten years after immigrating, my parents passed their naturalization tests with flying colors.

“He’s handled it with flying colors,” said Roberts.

“He’s handled it with flying colors,” Roberts said.

He was concerned before that game about how Ben might react in large crowd and in a loud stadium, especially one as notorious as Husky Stadium, but Ben passed the test with flying colors.