How To Use Flying colours In A Sentence
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The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
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She came through her French test with flying colours.
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He ended it as a perfect pupil after passing the toughest exam of his career with flying colours.
The Sun
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After she finished her conversation with flying colours, she hung up.
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We expect your son to pass the exam with flying colours.
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The railway builders fulfilled their task with flying colours each time.
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My daughter took her final exams with flying colours.
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The threat clearly worked as she passed the next one with flying colours.
The Sun
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Unlike the US and much of Europe, emerging economies passed the financial crisis with flying colours.
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They came off with flying colours.
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The speaker hammered at his opponent's ideas with flying colours.
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The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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She came through/passed her exams with flying colours.
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We expect your son to pass the exam with flying colours.
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Passing with flying colours, he received a beautifully-calligraphed testimonial signed by the scholars present.
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Unlike the US and much of Europe, emerging economies passed the financial crisis with flying colours.
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Ignoring fatigue, they kept at the job and finished it three weeks quicker than planned with flying colours.
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The teacher judged his students have finished the exercises with flying colours.
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The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The speaker hammered at his opponent's ideas with flying colours.
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The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The armed forces insist every recruit passes through this ordeal with flying colours before they take charge of real kit worth millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
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Neither model has passed the practice test with flying colours.
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Such was his intellectual ability that he was able to skip lectures to go climbing yet still graduate with flying colours.
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At the time, he was a commerce student at UCD and duly graduated with flying colours.
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Turkish iron-clads and, amidst flying colours, fully-manned yards and swarming caiques and steam-boats the journey to the shore was made -- with some private speculation as to what would happen to the Life Guardsmen of the Prince's suite if they should be upset in the water with all their cumbrous "toggery" on.
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
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A track for tough cars and tough drivers, it tests every component and every sinew to the limit and few pass with flying colours.
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At 20, he graduated with flying colours and returned his motherland to dedicate his talents.
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Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.
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Our team came off with flying colours I the football match.
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Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
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The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
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The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of her worries, she passed the exam with flying colours.
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Please honour your agreement by working until the project is finished with flying colours.
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Stoke will face tougher tests in this competition but passed their first with flying colours.
The Sun
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She passed the exam with flying colours.
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Thus I can remember one resident accoucheur being "ploughed," as we called it, in his special subject, obstetrics -- and men to whom you wouldn't trust your cat getting through with flying colours.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours.
Chapter 29
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Ignoring fatigue, they kept at the job and finished it three weeks quicker than planned with flying colours.
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Thora passed all her exams with flying colours.
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He passed his examination with flying colours.
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If you had not interfered, I should have finished my work with flying colours by now.
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Vicky started with a dish of king scallops with roast peppers, tomato and preserved lemon chermoula (a Moroccan mixture of herbs and spices), which passed with flying colours.
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The teacher judged his students have finished the exercises with flying colours.
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You've come through the ordeal with flying colours.
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We expect your son to pass the exam with flying colours.
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Example : She finished the work with flying colours.
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We expect your son to pass the exam with flying colours.
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At 20, he graduated with flying colours and returned his motherland to dedicate his talents.
