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under false colors



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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

Syrup Cocillana Compound is a nostrum sailing under false colors.

It would seem, he said, from what he could learn, that Tillotson's honorable opponent was sailing under false colors.

To be constantly forced to move under false colors was a bitter thing for Ezra.

It is clear that the women calling themselves Mowbrays have had the audacity to present themselves here under false colors.

That fellow is a Custom House inspector all right, but he's sailing under false colors.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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