| 单词 | with flying colours |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswith flying colours Phrases P1. to change colour (also †colours): (of a person) to have one's complexion alter in colour in response to something which has happened, been said, etc.; spec. (a) to turn pale; to have the colour drain from one's cheeks; (b) to turn red; to blush; to become flushed with anger, exertion, etc. [Compare Middle French, French changer couleur (1378), muer couleur (c1373).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour to change (one's) huec1380 to change colour (also colours)a1387 to change countenance (also face)c1425 change1600 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [verb (intransitive)] > change colour to change (one's) huec1380 to change coloura1387 to change countenance (also face)c1425 change1600 to turn (one's) colour1604 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 123 (MED) Þat welle chaunge[þ] hewe and colors[L. colorem mutans] foure siþes a ȝere. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7308 (MED) Colour he chaungeþ sumdel for drede. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 550 She changed coloure and blussyd as rudy as a rose. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccl. 795 The duke a lytell chaunged colour. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 13v The gentlewomen were strooke into such a quandarie with this sodayne chaunge, that they all chaunged coulour. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iv. sig. G4 Step to her sir, see how she changes colour. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 5 So apprehensive of the danger, that he changed colours. a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 165 She began, in a short Time to change Colours, and that was followed with gentle Tears. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. vii. 226 The knight changed colour and grinded his teeth with rage. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xvi. 252 Her eye glanced on something which made her change colour. 1901 R. Kipling Kim xiii. 336 Hurree was no game-shot,—the snick of a trigger made him change colour. 1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 92 He changed color twice—from parchment white to royal pomodoro—with the rush of blood surging through his congested arteries. P2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > under the appearance of under (the) umber of (or for)1423 by colour ofc1425 under (the) colour ofc1451 under the shadow of1523 with coloura1593 under the umbrage of1674 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 399 Vnder that colour hadde I many a myrthe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 669 Wndyr colour we mon our ansuer mak, Bot sic a thing I will nocht on me tak. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure ix. i They beleve in no maner of wyse That under a colour a trouth may aryse. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 866 The Moores contrarie to his commaundement had bought spices vnder a coulour. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C3v Then may we with some colour rise in armes. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. xxiv. 568 They went aboord in their canoes, carrying many refreshings of meats and stuffes to make apparrell, vpon colour to sell them. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 30 They had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. View more context for this quotation 1688 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Persecution Piedmont 46 The Prisoners..represented also that they ought not to be distinguished from the rest, under colour that they were more culpable. 1740 Universal Hist. V. iii. xix. 674 Civicus Cerealis was murdered during his proconsulship of Asia, under colour, that he designed to raise disturbances in the state. 1824 tr. Herodotus Hist. II. vi. cxxxiii. 114 Miltiades..set sail for Paros, under colour that the Parians had sailed in a trireme with the Persians to Marathon. 1882 C. G. Leland Gypsies 247 He was endeavoring to convince me that I ought to give five cents more for it..under color that the leather had a different ground. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > under the appearance of under (the) umber of (or for)1423 by colour ofc1425 under (the) colour ofc1451 under the shadow of1523 with coloura1593 under the umbrage of1674 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3553 (MED) I shal..twynne assonder..þe false cheyne Whiche lynked was by colour of wedlok. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccix. 712 The king..may..assemble great puyssaunce..in the colour of this treatie. ?1536 ( Jack Upland l. 3 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 191 Antichrist..by colour of holines..deceiven Christes church. 1553 Queen Mary I Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. Catal. Let. i. 3 (modernized text) By Colour of the authority of the same King. 1605 Certaine Demandes Propounded Ep. Ded. 7 Those false Prophets, for deceiving of the people, by colour of their garments, should have those garments,..plucked over their eares. 1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. To Rdr. sig. A7 Forcible resistance upon the colour of preserving Religion. a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 27 It is the worst oppression that is done by Colour of justice. c. under (the) colour of: under pretext or pretence of; under the mask or alleged authority of. Now archaic except as overlapping with sense 7a. [Compare French sous couleur de (1378 in Middle French), also Old Occitan sus color de (1423).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > under the appearance of under (the) umber of (or for)1423 by colour ofc1425 under (the) colour ofc1451 under the shadow of1523 with coloura1593 under the umbrage of1674 c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 92 (MED) Feyned folk..used her synne vndyr colour of holynesse. 1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 520 Brybours that wold a robbed a ship vndyr colour of my lord of Warwyk. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxix. §2. 437 Swikil tunge [L. lingua dolosa]..þat vndire colour of goed counsaile bryngis til syn. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlvi. 63 He sent vnto them a prelate vnder the colour of the pope. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. ii. 3 Now I must be as vniust to Thurio, Vnder the colour of commending him. View more context for this quotation 1676 W. Sampson Rector's Bk. Clayworth 4 Jan. (1910) 22 Mr. Winteringham Vicar of Retford under colour of my consent & allowance..drawn to woodhouse. 1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 53 The Senat found some way or other of interposing, under colour of accommodating their Quarrel. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. x. 282 There have been received under the colour of Religion, a world of Fables. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. x. 140 This is the oppression and tyrannical partiality of judges, justices, and other magistrates, in the administration and under the colour of their office. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) ix. 108 A present..given under colour of enabling him to appear more respectably. 1885 Neepawa (Manitoba) Star 21 Aug. 2/1 Nor should those intrusted with the people's money..embezzle..the least portion of that money, under colour of black coal or white coal, ditch contracts, or any other pretext. 1911 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 19 101 Sorel..has broken with the dominating politicians, who, he believes, under color of democratic socialism..aim only to reduce to servitude and to corrupt the working class. 1991 I. Littlewood Lit. Compan. Venice (1995) v. 141 Without giving themselves away, parents could thus go to see their children under colour of religious exercise. d. without colour: honestly; (originally) without dissembling or disguise; (later) without pretext or bias. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adverb] utterly?c1225 entirelya1340 faithlyc1350 without (but) feigningc1380 clearly1389 whollyc1390 unfeigninglyc1400 entirec1430 unfeigneda1469 without coloura1513 honestly1526 singly1526 unfeignedly1526 uncolourably1541 bona fide1542 frankly?1553 sincerely1560 squarely1564 uprightly1565 square1577 single-mindedly1579 undissemblinglyc1585 above board1599 fair and square1604 downright1607 downrightly1632 really1641 uncasuistly1649 honest1654 up tro1654 plain-heartedly1675 unaffectedly1677 straightforwardly1839 wholeheartedly1845 unfallaciously1852 up and down1854 single-heartedly1857 unflatteringly1874 uncynically1895 square on1963 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxv Without fraude, colour, or disceyte. 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 16 Answere me directly without colour, whether it be so or not. 1616 T. Gainsford Hist. Trebizond iii. 200 Gestarius..base in very basenesse it selfe allowed each reproch without Coulour or excuse. 1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 183 Here Profaness is shut out from Defence, and lies open without Colour or Evasion. 1749 R. Hayes Negociator's Mag. (ed. 6) i. 8 The Possessor..can prove that the same Bill, without Colour or Fraud, was delivered to him. 1818 J. Adolphus Polit. State Brit. Empire II. 685 A wager or bet is..a contract entered into without colour or fraud. 1899 N.Y. Suppl. 54 337 Each one told the defendant's officials his story fairly and squarely, and told it without color or suspicious manner. 1921 Railway Maintenance of Way Employes Jrnl. Aug. 8/1 Labor, published by workers for workers, has no interest other than to give weekly a clear statement of facts, without color or bias. 2003 National Business Rev. (N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 31 Sky has built up an outstanding group of commentators..Their role is to provide a continuous call of each game without colour or bias. P3. a. under false colours (also †colour). (a) With a deliberately misleading appearance or presentation; in a manner likely or intended to deceive; by false pretences. ΚΠ a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4265 (MED) Þe qwilk sal preche undir fals colour And say Cristes lawe es not bot errour. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. iii. sig. P.vj There nys noo ryght that can com tyme ynoughe for to recompense hym therof by cause it is doon vndre false coulour. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11496 He set hom a cas, What fortune might falle vndur fals colour. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning xli, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 31 Vnder false colour giuing truth such rates,As Power may rule in chiefe through all Estates. 1715 Let. from Country Whig 62 We have fancied we have seen Trees move, when they have only been Branches in the Hands of those who have under false Colours disturbed the Peace of our Israel. 1798 J. Bayley Forester v. i. 91 You do not live as we do ye white-liver'd dogs! That go about..extorting money Under false colours, unworthy gentlemen at large. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 134 If men go through society before marriage under false colours. 1958 Listener 5 June 955/3 Rameau's ballet bouffon enters the category under false colours. 1998 V. Lanier Blind Bloodhound Justice (2002) xxv. 237 I'm sorry, but I came to see you 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. b. to show (also †hang out) false colours: to make a statement, take a stance, etc., which misleads others as to one's true intentions or beliefs; to deceive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > be or go in disguise [verb (intransitive)] mask1579 mumchance1606 to show (also hang out) false colours1655 masquerade1677 to parade as1887 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 98 First, he [sc. Satan] hangs out false colours, and comes up to the Christian in the disguise of a friend. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 52. ⁋3 Our Female Candidate..will no longer hang out false Colours. 1777 J. Wesley Let. 18 Oct. (1931) VI. 284 I hang out no false colours. Scriptural, Christian, &c., are all equivocal words. 1784 F. Burney Diary 30 Dec. (1842) II. 340 A letter..which seems to shew her gay and happy. I hope it shews not false colours. 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. i. 28 There's not an R put to her [sc. a wife's] name?..She's not run—not shewn false colours? 1916 F. L. Coombs U. S. Grant iii. 30 I am not one to show false colors, or the brightest side of the picture, so I will tell you about some of the drawbacks. 2006 J. F. Callo J. P. Jones vi. 89 Showing false colours was a common tactic to cause an enemy to hesitate. P4. to cast (also put etc.) false (also handsome, etc.) colours upon: to present information or depict people, events, etc., in a particular light or with a particular slant or purpose. ΚΠ 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv He wyll..sette a false colour of lernyng on propre wittes, whiche wyll be wasshed away with one shoure of raine. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 35 To set a good coulour vppon this holy protestation they [sc. Lutherans] saye farder..That all bisshops..be all without lerning. 1648 R. Younge Cause & Cure Ignorance xxvii. 65 Prejudice casteth a false colour upon the best actions. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 540 He puts a false colour upon one part of his Argument. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 21 Charg'd with casting very odious and black Colours upon the Dissenters. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xvi. vii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 520 Desirous to put handsome colours on the death of Mariamne. 1808 J. Bowden Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy Asserted II. xiv. 14 There is, Sir, nothing in this world easier, than to misstate facts and superinduce false colours upon truth. 1898 M. E. Bennett Gentle Art of Pleasing v. 101 One by one he sketches them to the life, leaves out no marks the fray of living has left upon them, puts no false colors upon their sins or ignorances. 1994 C. E. V. Nixon & B. S. Rodgers In Praise Later Rom. Emperors 356 Cicero..deplored tarting up one's speeches by, as it were, smearing false colours upon them. P5. a. to show one's true colours and variants: to reveal one's real character, allegiance, or intentions, esp. when these are disreputable or dishonourable. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > one's thoughts or feelings to open one's hearta1250 to break one's mind (heart)a1450 to show one's mind1492 to fish out the bottom of a person's stomach1537 to utter (the bottom of) one's stomach1537 to show one's true colours?1551 to come out1836 to open out1855 to come (out) in (also into) the open1861 disembosom1884 unbutton1956 to go public1957 ?1551 T. Becon Fruitful Treat. Fasting Ep. Ded. sig. A.iiiv He [sc. Satan] neuer..so liuely setteth forth him selfe in his true colours, as when ye guids of the Lords flocke be either absent from their shepe, or els are negligent. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. sig. D1v How might we see Falstaffe bestow himself to night in his true colours, and not our selues be seene? View more context for this quotation 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxv. 437 Would you not have us pull off the Mask or wash off the paint, that we may shew things in their proper colours? 1676 A. Fanshaw Mem. (1907) 61 He had formerly made Secretary Windebank appear in his colours. 1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 99 Feign not..but go in thy colours to Jesus Christ. 1694 C. Cotton tr. L. Pontis Mem. ii. v. 236 Writing in a passion, I inveigh'd bitterly against him [sc. a cardinal], and laid him out in his true colours, mentioning him in scurrilous terms, as Hat, and Redcap, and the like. 1702 Char. Church-man 18 He is for shewing the Low Church Men in their own proper Colours. 1770 D. Garrick Let. 30 Aug. (1963) II. 710 Will she testify ye Truth against his Falsehoods?.. Her testimony may be of Consequence—for we must shew him in his proper Colours if necessary. 1789 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) viii. 184 He..is content to appear in his own coulours which are not the brightest hue. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. ii. 8 Exhibit things in their true colours. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxv. 166 [He] who didn't venture..to come out in his true colours. 1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 75 At last..the underteachers..revealed themselves in their true colours. 1884 W. E. Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/7 Opponents who may find some difficulty in showing their colours. 1941 Amer. Observer 15 Dec. 5/4 Not until the summer of 1939 was Abetz exposed in his true colors and expelled from France. 1948 P. Kavanagh Tarry Flynn vii. 151 He felt that he would be able to rehabilitate himself with Mary Reilly if he once got the chance to flower forth in his real colours of genius. 1975 S. Selvon Moses Ascending 146 ‘What about the trafficking of illegal Paki immigrants,’ she say, showing her true colours. 1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xvi. 239 It's just as well she's revealing her true colours before Mr Ryder's parents arrive. 2003 R. Gervais & S. Merchant Office: Scripts 2nd Ser. Episode 2. 81 Brent: I've just had it out with Neil. He showed his true colours, didn't he? b. to see (a person) in his (her, etc.) true colours and variants: to see (a person) as he or she really is, esp. rather than as he or she typically appears or has previously been accepted or understood to be. ΚΠ 1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. M1v First therefore shall you behold the Abram-man in his true colours, his right shape, his owne ragges. 1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum ii. v. 201 Which prejudice being the Yellow-jaundise of the soul, leaves such a tincture upon the eyes of the understanding, that till it be cured of that Icterism, it cannot discern things in their proper colours. 1743 Erskine tr. A. F. Prévost d'Exiles Mem. & Adventures Marquis de Bretagne & Duc d'Harcourt II. x. 177 We shall soon see them appearing in their true colours, and acting quite a different part. 1798 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 326/2 But he now saw them in their true colours. 1865 F. W. Robinson Mr. Stewart's Intentions I. ii. vii. 210 Mr. Stewart had puzzled me very much, and every opportunity of judging him, and seeing his true colours, I did not like to lose. 1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 13 Jan. (1993) III. 178 She has become (or I see her now in her true colours) the person who looks after all I cannot attend to. 2005 J. Bailey Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven (U.S. ed.) 10 I get to hear the shadiest gossip and to see their true colours. P6. to give (also lend) colour: (originally) to give a specious appearance of truth to an idea, opinion, etc.; to afford a ground or pretext for an action; (now typically without necessary sense of pretence) to give support or plausibility to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > take someone's side or side with > ostensibly to give (also lend) colour1582 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > create or maintain appearance [phrase] to have some show1556 to set a face on (something)1590 to save or keep up appearances1603 to give (also lend) colour1687 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > support, corroborate fasteneOE i-sothea925 sustainc1325 witness1362 approvec1380 confirmc1384 affirma1393 justifya1393 to bear outa1475 corrobore1485 uphold1485 nourisha1522 underpinc1522 to countenance outa1529 favoura1530 soothe1544 strengthen1548 comfort1593 second1596 accredit1598 evidencea1601 warrantise1600 compact1608 back1612 thickena1616 accreditate1654 shoulder1674 support1691 corroborate1706 carry1835 to give (also lend) colour1921 1582 R. Parsons Def. Censure 13 By excluding councels, fathers, and auncitours of the churche..to reserue vnto them selues libertie, and authoritie to make what meaning of Scripture they please, and thereby to gyue colour to euerye fansie they list to teache. a1641 J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) iv. 43 Dead? no my Lord, belike they were of counsel with your deceased Lady, and so sham'd twice to give colour to so vile an act. 1687 H. Care Modest Enq. iv. 60 Indirect means to advance and lend Colours to the supporting or spreading the Honour, the Pomp and Empire of the See of Rome. 1771 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) V. 454 St. Paul..gives you no colour for making void the law. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 2 In order to give colour and probability to the fraud. 1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations ii. 37 The slightest hint that seems to give a colour to..hope. 1896 H. L. Tangye In New S. Afr. v. 326 This lends some colour to the theory that the inhabitants adapted themselves..to the practice of the country and lived in dagher huts. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. vi. 155 Facts such as these seem to lend color to the suspicion that..we are confronted by something deeper. 1977 P. L. Fermor Time of Gifts (1979) ii. 65 The river..churns perilously enough to give colour to the stories of ships and sailors beckoned to destruction. 1991 Amer. Heritage Nov. 146/3 You may acquire serendipitously a useful anecdote or background information that lends color and authenticity to an account. P7. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > have no fear [verb] to fear no colours1592 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. D4v Helter skelter, feare no colours, course him, trounce him. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 9 I can tell thee where yt saying was borne, of I feare no colours..In the warrs. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 175 Come, fear no Colours! The end the Act will hallow! 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxvii. 527 The Viper-Catchers have a Way of smearing over their Hands with the Fat of the Viper, and then they fear no Colours. 1809 European Mag. & London Rev. May 372/2 We take it, that the expression ‘under the rose,’ like that which says, ‘He that is hanged need fear no colours’, arose from the wars. 1882 Sunday at Home 618/2 In spite, however, of the opposition truth daily meets with in the world, yet we are told ‘Truth fears no colours’. b. to stick (also †stand) to one's colours: to maintain one's allegiance to one's party, faction, etc.; cf. to stick to one's guns at gun n. 6c. ΚΠ 1639 W. Harrison Two Treat. ii. xi. 341 A covetous person will never stand to his colours. 1769 tr. P. de Charlevoix Hist. Paraguay II. xii. 292 He had..men enough to oblige the rebels to return to their duty, had all his men stuck to their colours. 1831 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 16 July [We] call the attention of all those who stick to their colours and their friends, to the excellent speech of Lord Valletort. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Nov. 7/1 The obstinacy with which Prince Alexander is sticking to his colours. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxxi. 244 Kate stood firmly to her colours. 1922 A. W. Sterling Bk. Englewood xix. 291 Mayor Munroe stuck to his colours and vetoed the resolution, but the council repassed it. 2009 Daily News (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 May 8 A supporter is one who sticks to his colours through good times and bad. P8. a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour: see horse n. 25a. P9. with flying colours. a. Of a regiment of soldiers, a ship, etc.: with the flag, ensign, or standard flying. ΚΠ 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 855/2 Philips Army with flying colours sent lately into Ireland vpon gift made vnto him by the Pope..bewraied their intents. 1651 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 32 The garesone..to go foorth with flieing coullers. 1701 E. Ward Battel without Bloodshed 12 With fine Flying Colours, and Groaning board Hums,..they march the Town round. 1792 E. Hargrove Anecd. Archery 60 On the 21st of March 1661, four hundred Archers marched, with flying colours to Hyde-Park. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 383/1 Matteo sent in his place one of his sons, Marco, escorted by a body of troops with flying colours. 1905 G. Peel Friends Eng. vi. 113 They were not so simple as to march with flying colours into the camp of their religious enemies. b. With visible or undoubted success; with distinction. Frequently in to come off (also through, etc.) with flying colours. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > cause (one) to be successful triumpha1571 to give the bell1600 to come off (also through, etc.) with flying colours1622 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > perform or contest successfully to come off (also through, etc.) with flying colours1622 to come offa1645 to come on strong1886 1622 W. Ames Reply Dr. Mortons Gen. Def. v. 83 He is as it seemeth, a great adventurer: For hee commeth forth upon this peece of service with flying colours. 1692 J. Locke Toleration iii. viii It may..bring a Man off with flying Colours. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 5 We came off with flying Colours. 1790 J. Wesley Let. 20 Apr. (1931) VIII. 215 John Atlay goes on with flying colours, telling all that will give him the hearing how cruelly he has been used by me. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 63 The tenant farmers..do they come out of it with any flying colours? 1966 M. Pei How to learn Langs. 7 He eventually graduated, but not with flying colors. 2004 Nature 5 Feb. 483/3 So far, Einstein's equations pass both tests with flying colours. P10. to see the colour of someone's money: to receive payment from someone; (also) to receive some proof that someone has enough money to pay for something and that payment is forthcoming. Also to show someone the colour of one's money: to provide such payment or proof. ΚΠ 1718 T. Gordon in Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 33 I have never seen the colour of Mr. Baskett's money. 1795 H. Cowley Town before You ii. i. 20 Sir, you have been in my lodgings fourteen weeks, and I have never yet seen the colour of your money. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. iii. 64 Messrs. Gascoigne and Easy paid their bill and rose to depart, but the padrone informed them that he should like to see the colour of their money before they went on board. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xviii. 173 He had never seen the colour of my money. 1906 Women that pass in Night I. x. 142 The waiter soon saw the colour of my money, to the tune of one hundred and fifty francs. 1960 B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann 53 Going to the first ten lucky punters for a measly nicker—Show us the colour of your money. 1996 F. McGuinness Carthaginians (rev. ed.) v, in Plays: 1 354 Ring-a-ding, dear, ring-a-ding. Show us the colour of your money. 2010 Mirror (Eire ed.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 28 His divorce attorney has certainly seen the colour of his money over the years. P11. Originally and chiefly U.S. of colour: designating a person who is not white-skinned, esp. a black person, as man of colour, person of colour, people of colour, woman of colour, etc. [Compare French de couleur (1779 or earlier in gens de couleur people of colour, 1789 or earlier in homme de couleur man of colour; in Old French in general sense ‘having a colour, coloured’ (c1170)) and Spanish de color (1748 in mujer de color woman of colour, in the passage translated in quot. 1758 at coloured adj. 3b, also 1748 in gente de color people of colour; 13th cent. in general sense ‘having a colour, coloured’), both used to designate a person who is not white-skinned. Compare earlier coloured adj. 3b.] ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1786 M. Smeathman (title) in Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. (1916) 2 501 Plan for a settlement, to be made near Sierra Leone, and intended more particularly for the service and happy establishment of blacks and people of color. 1788 Mass. Centinel 30 July 155/3 ‘It is a very dark night,’ says Cato, to one of his brethren of colour. 1797 B. Edwards Hist. Surv. St. Domingo i. 1 The inhabitants..were composed of three great classes: 1st, pure whites. 2d, people of colour, and blacks of free condition. 3d, negroes in a state of slavery... The class which, by a strange abuse of language, is called people of colour, originates from an intermixture of the whites and the blacks. 1803 Naval Chron. 9 111 The Bermudian pilots are men of colour. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 6 A free person of colour is now entitled to give evidence against a white, in any Court of Justice, upon producing his privilege papers. 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 11 The..pleasant expression of countenance of a young woman of colour. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. vii. 57 She is a woman of colour. 1907 Nature 17 Jan. 265/2 The crimes of a few negroes exasperate white people so much that they forget the kindly ways of the average man of colour. 1911 C. Hayford Ethiopia Unbound xiii. 154 Though he immensely dislike men of colour, he thought it politic outwardly to be on the best of terms with the leaders of the people. 1985 P. Abrahams View from Coyaba iv. i. 210 You are a man of colour, Dr Brown, you know the state of men of colour in our world and in our time. 2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. x. 186 Over the past thirty years hiphop has invented a new matrix by which people of color..established their own companies, becoming millionaires without conforming to the Wasp style of corporate America. P12. to nail one's colours to the mast: see nail v. Phrases 1. P13. to troop the colour: see troop v. 6. P14. to call (a person) to the colours and variants: to summon (a person) to active military service with a regiment; to call up; to conscript. Cf. sense 20b. ΚΠ 1823 in Mem. Hist. France during Reign Napoleon: Hist. Misc. II. 270 The number of retired and reduced officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, amounted to upwards of 100,000; 30,000 were fit for service, and were called to their colours. 1872 Col. von Wright & H. M. Hozier tr. Campaign of 1866 in Germany i. 38 Recruits and furlough men called to the colours in consequence of the decree of the Bund of the 14th June. 1883 Colburn's United Service Mag. Nov. 499 To render the Reserve man liable to be called to the colours for any war—not necessarily European. 1916 M. Gyte Diary 19 Oct. (1999) 105 Our Tony's papers came calling him to the colours on Nov. 2nd. 1967 J. Speight Till Death us do Part: Scripts (1973) 56 If we declare war on someone, an' you're called to the colours—I mean, you can't refuse to go out an' fight because it's dangerous, can you? 1978 E. Blishen Sorry, Dad i. iii. 23 He was to go to an annual camp, as a Territorial: instead he was called to the colours. 2001 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 27 May (Viewpoint section) 1 When their country called them to the colors, they stepped forward and made the transition from peaceful citizen to warrior soldier. ΚΠ 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law iv. 110 The Imperial superior..was forced to take colour with the church against the reformers. P16. constant of colour n. now historical each of a set of three quantities which together uniquely specify a particular colour; usually in plural.As originally proposed the three quantities were purity, luminosity, and tone; they were later given as saturation, lightness, and hue (cf. Munsell n.). ΚΠ 1876 O. N. Rood in Q. Jrnl. Sci. 6 458 (heading) The constants of colour. 1902 E. N. Vanderpoel Color Probl. (2005) iii. 26 Colors have three principal qualities, called scientifically ‘constants of color’, which should be studied as a preparation for the study of the harmony of colors. 1965 F. Birren Hist. Color in Painting xii. 226/1 Rood undertook discussions of reflected and transmitted light, color dispersion, and the constants of color. P17. ΚΠ 1877 C. S. Peirce in Philos. Mag. 3 543 The result of increasing the brilliancy of any light must be to add to the sensation a variable amount of a constant sensation..; and all very bright light will tend toward the same colour, which may therefore be called the colour of brightness. 1889 Philos. Mag. 27 3 The visual effect is known to vary in a very minute degree with the absolute amount of this energy, at least if we admit the physiological influence of what has been called ‘the colour of brightness’. < as lemmas |
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