show one's true colors
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Verb
to
show
one's
true
colors
(
idiomatic
)
To reveal how one
really
is, as opposed to how one has been
portrayed
.
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Translations
to reveal how one really is
Czech:
vybarvit
(cs)
German:
Farbe bekennen
(de)
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