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Verb: pass with flying colours
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: pass with flying colors)
  1. Easily do well at; pass perfectly
    "You will pass with flying colours"; "You will pass with flying colours";
    - breeze through [informal], ace, pass with flying colors [US], sweep through, sail through, nail [informal]

Type of: make it, make the grade [N. Amer], pass