Jun 6, 2016 14:07
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English term

rep your true colours

Non-PRO English Marketing Textiles / Clothing / Fashion Sports shoes
What does "rep" stand for? "Represent"?
Thanks in advance!
Change log

Jun 6, 2016 15:55: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Marketing"

Jun 6, 2016 16:17: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): lorenab23, philgoddard, Yasutomo Kanazawa

Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, writeaway, Rachel Fell

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Discussion

writeaway Jun 6, 2016:
Looking it up to make sure is always nice. I do that a lot even when I'm 100% sure. But it's still a question that can be answered without looking it up. It's marketing so there are always a few ways to go. But show your true colours would be the first one that comes to mind. It's a standard, everyday expression after all.
philgoddard Jun 6, 2016:
I don't think this is a non-pro question. The context kind of gives the answer away, but I still had to look it up to make sure.
Yulia Tsybysheva BA MSc MCIL (asker) Jun 6, 2016:
Sorry, forgot to include more context! It's an advertisement of a new jersey of a football team by a sports retailer.
B D Finch Jun 6, 2016:
Context? If you provide no context, other than this having something to do with sports shoes, so your guess is as good as ours! Reproduce/represent/reprise/repaint/reprogramme/replicate ...

Responses

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show your true colours

Rep is short for represent.

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-06-06 16:03:46 GMT)
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http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/rep
Peer comment(s):

agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
35 mins
agree Harry Crawford
11 hrs
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