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rose-colored glasses
noun
- a cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis:
He saw life through rose-colored glasses.
Word History and Origins
Origin of rose-colored glasses1
Example Sentences
There are times when we remember our experiences through rose-colored glasses.
So he just genuinely has these rose-colored glasses when it comes to Selina.
Still, “nobody has rose-colored glasses,” she made clear, and the negotiations might even be a precursor to war.
The rose-colored glasses have since come off and the honeymoon phase presumably ended some time ago—but when exactly?
Mort Zuckerman on why Geithner might be reading the trends through rose-colored glasses.
We speak of rose-colored glasses, and Shakespeare wrote, "All things are yellow to a jaundiced eye."
The rose-colored glasses have been broken early, and she is gazing through the murky, cloudy atmosphere of discontent.
Correggio touches the heart in much the same way; he, too, saw the world through rose-colored glasses.
Each wore on the bridge of his long nose a pair of rose-colored glasses.
The future looked rather gray even through her habitually rose-colored glasses.
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