look through rose-colored glasses

Idioms  

1. see see through rose-colored glasses.

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Example Sentences

If you look through "rose-colored glasses" at the results, there may be a sign of potential benefit on cognitive tests, said Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

From Seattle Times

If you look through "rose-colored glasses" at the results, there may be a sign of potential benefit on cognitive tests, but it is not clear whether that is enough to make a real difference clinically in how patients do, said Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

From New York Times

What a season like this does, it gives you a very stark and concrete realism, where in the past, if things are going well and you’re winning a few more games, you may be able to gloss some things over or look through rose-colored glasses.

From New York Times

But, then, I was only a sensitive young woman of seventeen, whereas Tom was an experienced man ten years my senior, and, in appearance, at least, he managed to bear things with more composure than did I. As our train rushed along through the beautiful land, all adorned with the thousand beauties of the pleasant month of May, all things looked to me like consecutive scenes in a new paradise, as when we look through rose-colored glasses all things are colored like the rose.

From Project Gutenberg