rose-colored glasses
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- noun
- /ˈroʊzˌkʌlərd ˈɡlæsɪz/
- Informal
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gafas de color rosa
- She tends to view life through rose-colored glasses, ignoring the challenges around her.
- wearing rose-colored glasses
- looking through rose-colored glasses
- put on rose-colored glasses
I read somewhere that when you're wearing rose colored glasses, all the red flags looks just like flags.
- I read somewhere that when you're wearing rose colored glasses, all the red flags looks just like flags.
- But I don't know, I don't know, maybe, maybe just maybe Kevin has rose colored glasses on.
- I mean, we, we, we would describe it as rose colored glasses.
Examples
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You know it's funny when you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
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If you fail to recognize that attitude, maybe you need to remove your rose-colored glasses.
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When you wear rose colored glasses, your attitude is better.
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I guess I just need a new pair of rose-colored glasses!
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I said, "Sometimes I think they are looking through rose-colored glasses."
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Money tends to turn what is real into what is seen through rose-colored glasses.
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Take off those rose-colored glasses, you Homer, and look at the facts.
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It's easy to imagine how amazing other people's lives are while looking through the rose-colored glasses of a blog.
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I also try very hard to be a realist and avoid seeing the world through rose-colored glasses.
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We shouldn't put on rose-colored glasses and skip down the path, ignoring danger and trouble.
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Synonyms
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Believing something you want will happen even though it is unlikely
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A feeling of happiness based on wrong hopes that will not last
A view that is too positive and ignores problems
Seeing things in a very positive way that ignores problems
An optimistic view of the future that is often unrealistic
A too positive view of the past that leaves out bad things
A too positive view of the past that ignores problems
An idea that things will always turn out well, even when there are problems
An overly optimistic view that ignores real problems
Being too positive and ignoring real problems
An overly optimistic view that ignores problems
An overly hopeful way of dealing with problems that ignores bad signs
An overly optimistic view that ignores real problems
An overly optimistic view that ignores real problems
Expecting only good results and ignoring risks
Antonyms
How Optimistic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase evokes the literal image of glasses tinted rose (rose-colored) causing one to see things more positively, so a learner who knows 'rose-colored' and 'glasses' can plausibly infer an unrealistically optimistic perspective. However, the meaning is metaphorical rather than strictly compositional and depends on figurative inference (though cross-linguistic equivalents like French 'voir la vie en rose' make the logic accessible), so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
The idiom rose-colored glasses comes from the image of wearing rose-colored glasses with pink lenses that make the world look softer and nicer. That's why saying someone wears rose-colored glasses means they are 'too optimistic' and may 'ignore problems'.