show one's true stripes
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show one's true stripes
verb shows one's true stripes · showing one's true stripes · showed one's true stripes · shown one's true stripes
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To reveal one's real beliefs, sentiments, or character, especially through one's behavior.
Fidel Castro showed his true stripes again—as if they weren't indelible enough already—by letting his MiGs shoot down two of three unarmed Cuban-exile planes off Havana's coast on Saturday.
Similar: show one's true colors
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