rose-colored glasses
(Redirected from view through rose-colored glasses)
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- rose-coloured glasses (non-US)
- rose-tinted glasses, rose-colored lenses
- rose-coloured spectacles, rose-tinted spectacles (UK)
Etymology edit
Phrase appears as early as 1830 according to OED.[1]
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Noun edit
rose-colored glasses pl (plural only) (American spelling)
- (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.
- 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
- Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
overly optimistic perception of something
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References edit
- ^ “rose-tinted spectacles”, in TheFreeDictionary.com[1], Farlex, Inc, 2015, archived from the original on 13 June 2021