When it comes time for your final exam on your history-making escape, we're guessing you'll pass with flying colours.

BBC: Daily deal: Historic Baltimore

I, probably like everybody else, hope he comes through this with flying colours.

BBC: Best's Man Utd boost

He passed this test with flying colours (and managed to look confident and jaunty even when saying not very much).

ECONOMIST: State of the union

It was a test his players passed with flying colours as they extended their winning run in all competitions to 10 matches and more than two months.

BBC: London Irish 42-12 Gloucester

But it has passed one test with flying colours.

BBC: The Organization of Entirely Consistent Disappointment

But when the vote was finally taken both passed with flying colours, although the majority in favour of golf was somewhat smaller than that in favour of its fellow returnee to the Olympic family.

BBC: Golf & rugby voted into Olympics

Five hundred years ago, a caravel flying the colours of the King of Portugal rounded the curve of the continent.

NPR: 'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone

The honour, agreed unanimously by the county's councillors, allows the regiment to march with "colours flying, drums beating and bayonets fixed" on ceremonial occasions.

BBC: Royal Welsh hold Anglesey 'freedom' parade in Holyhead

Having the freedom of the the town means the battalion is allowed to parade with colours flying, bayonets fixed, drums beating and bands playing.

BBC: 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh: Soldiers in Bridgend march