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单词 show one's true colours
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show one's true colours

Reveal one’s real character or intentions, especially when these are disreputable or dishonourable: she was only too anxious to get out of the room now that her employer had shown his true colours...
  • In some ways it's a real blessing that Bill showed his true colors relatively early in our relationship.
  • There is effective suspense, sure, but the villains are clearly defined, and any ambiguous characters immediately show their true colors.
  • Polly starts out as an innocent young woman swept away by the romance of a wedding, but soon shows her true colours by taking over her husband's old firm of gangsters as soon as he is out of the way.
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