false colors

He is however flying under false colors, and his constantly shifting stories are as bemusing to Jane as they are amusing to the audience.

During the campaign, Mr. Trump called for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration, and as president he has tried to halt entry from Syria and a handful of other Muslim-majority countries, contending that some of the refugees and other migrants could be terrorists trying to slip into the United States under false colors.

Woolsey said on CNN that he did not want to “fly under false colors” any longer.

This process lets the team get a more detailed view of surface features — the false colors help scientists understand the boundaries of different geological regions.

Flying under the false colors of religious liberty, the five Catholics in the majority insisted they were acting to protect the constitutional rights of two closely held corporations owned and operated by Christian families.