under false colors

Idioms  

1. see false colors.

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Example Sentences

She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was obliged to sail under false colors until he reached Boydtown in his native State, where Morris, his mother's coachman, was waiting for him.

From Rodney The Partisan by Castlemon, Harry

I am afraid I have been sailing under false colors with you and the other members of your little party.

From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Vandercook, Margaret

Humph! that's a temptation to sail under false colors that most of my kin would thank'ee for.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

"I'm not sailing under false colors," says Sax, sharp.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace