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rose-colored glasses

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  • noun Glasses that are tinted in a pink or rose shade.
  • noun idiomatic An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is.

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  • To declare that a person is "seeing through rose-colored glasses" implies that they are an optimist, only seeing the good and neglecting to notice the bad.

    January 23, 2008