rose-colored glasses

noun

1. a cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis:

   He saw life through rose-colored glasses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rose-colored glasses¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

There are times when we remember our experiences through rose-colored glasses.

From The Daily Beast

So he just genuinely has these rose-colored glasses when it comes to Selina.

From The Daily Beast

Still, “nobody has rose-colored glasses,” she made clear, and the negotiations might even be a precursor to war.

From The Daily Beast

The rose-colored glasses have since come off and the honeymoon phase presumably ended some time ago—but when exactly?

From The Daily Beast

Mort Zuckerman on why Geithner might be reading the trends through rose-colored glasses.

From The Daily Beast

We speak of rose-colored glasses, and Shakespeare wrote, "All things are yellow to a jaundiced eye."

From Project Gutenberg

The rose-colored glasses have been broken early, and she is gazing through the murky, cloudy atmosphere of discontent.

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Correggio touches the heart in much the same way; he, too, saw the world through rose-colored glasses.

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Each wore on the bridge of his long nose a pair of rose-colored glasses.

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The future looked rather gray even through her habitually rose-colored glasses.

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