Have you ever passed a test with flying colors?
When you take a test, it’s most important to pass, rather than fail. But if you can pass with flying colors, that’s even better.
The expression pass with flying colors used to be a sailing term. When one ship passed another, it would fly its flag, or colors, in order to identify itself. Only a pirate ship wouldn’t pass with flying colors.
These days, pass with flying colors is more often used to talk about the results of an exam. If you get an A+ on a test, you can say you passed with flying colors.
Have you ever passed a test with flying colors? What can you do to make sure you pass with flying colors?
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Please help me on tests. I mast make two.
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When I was a kid I passed a test with an A. It isn't an A+, but I considered it passing with flying colors because from the beginning of the class, up to the test, I did not do any work. I copied my friends homework and there wasn't much class work beside lectures. On the day of the test, I felt pretty screwed, but then I looked the test over. Everything the teacher said suddenly made sense and the test became really easy.
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I have passed with flying colors on Philosophy classes and arts classes. You can pass with flying colors if you put yourself into deep studying.
Making the material you study more important than anything else and living your life around it.
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