false colors
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O'Brian was fascinated with feints and deceptions, with warships that disguise themselves or fly false colors.
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She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I.
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He promptly hoisted the French flag and under these false colors sailed boldly past the British war boats guarding Gibraltar into the Mediterranean.
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Was that because he flew false colors himself?
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Almost every crowned, or would-be crowned, head, as he appears on the scene, does so as a mean intriguer, a lying varlet, a wearer of false colors.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
