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rose-colored glasses

alt. 1 (&lit glasses Glasses that are tinted in a pink or rose shade English) 2 (context idiomatic English) An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is. n. 1 (&lit glasses Glasses that are tinted in a pink or rose shade English) 2 (context idiomatic English) 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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Rose-colored glasses

Rose-colored glasses or rose-tinted glasses may refer to:

  • Optimism, the tendency to see things in an unrealistic positive light
    • Rosy retrospection, the tendency to view past events in positive light
In music
  • Rose Colored Glasses (album), by John Conlee

:* "Rose Colored Glasses" (John Conlee song), its title track

  • "Rose-Coloured Glasses", a song on the album Outskirts by Blue Rodeo
  • "Rose Colored Glasses" (Kelly Rowland song)

Usage examples of "rose-colored glasses".

The indri wore canvas pants and vest over his black and white fur, and his bright yellow eyes stared at them from behind round rose-colored glasses with thin lenses.

And then she'd see him without those rose-colored glasses that she always wore.

Behind the tree, the mountains loomed in angles and shadows softened by the rose-colored glasses of dawn.

He was looking at the whole world through gigantic rose-colored glasses.

He was looking at the whole world through gigan-tic rose-colored glasses.

Because he had been lonely for so long, he was eager to continue their relationship, even if he had to wear the biggest pair of rose-colored glasses ever made in order to maintain the illusion of romance.

But for years, since the day he took office, he looked at Moscow through rose-colored glasses there's no question about it.

You're so caught up in seeing the universe as if through rose-colored glasses that you're going to change the universe's color to rose, if necessary, to make it so.

His deci-sions have to be based on the uncolored facts, not facts seen through parochial, rose-colored glasses.

His decisions have to be based on the uncolored facts, not facts seen through parochial, rose-colored glasses.

Although Nellie tended to look at their father through rose-colored glasses, Terel saw him for what he was.

I was too experienced and too practical to go back to seeing life through rose-colored glasses, or think you could figure out life's solutions with paper and a slide rule.

Ken was very much like himself-a decent man with enough intelligence to see things the way they were, not through rose-colored glasses.