英语词汇“to sail under false colours”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) to sail (also fight) under false colours: to display colours which mislead other vessels as to identity or allegiance of one's ship; (figurative) to mislead, deceive; cf. to hang out false colours at Phrases 3b.

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1787 G. McCalman Treat. Tea 62 Sailing under false colours, paying no respect to any flag, smuggling, piracy, and every thing that is bad, would be practised in peaceable times.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at False colours To sail under false colours..is an allowable stratagem of war.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 582 Sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere.

1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise ix. 240 Mr White looked up at the mizen-peak, where a tricolour streamed out bravely. ‘It is the French flag,’ he cried. ‘No. The Dutch. We are sailing under false colours! Can such things be?’

1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May (Review Suppl.) 30/3 But it is sailing under false colours. Nowhere on the outside of the book do the publishers disclose that it is an abridgement.

单词	to sail under false colours
释义	> as lemmas to sail (also fight) under false colours (b) to sail (also fight) under false colours: to display colours which mislead other vessels as to identity or allegiance of one's ship; (figurative) to mislead, deceive; cf. to hang out false colours at Phrases 3b. ΚΠ 1787 G. McCalman Treat. Tea 62 Sailing under false colours, paying no respect to any flag, smuggling, piracy, and every thing that is bad, would be practised in peaceable times. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at False colours To sail under false colours..is an allowable stratagem of war. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 582 Sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere. 1973 P. O'Brian H.M.S. Surprise ix. 240 Mr White looked up at the mizen-peak, where a tricolour streamed out bravely. ‘It is the French flag,’ he cried. ‘No. The Dutch. We are sailing under false colours! Can such things be?’ 1991 Independent on Sunday 19 May (Review Suppl.) 30/3 But it is sailing under false colours. Nowhere on the outside of the book do the publishers disclose that it is an abridgement. extracted from colourcolorn.¹ < as lemmas
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