| 单词 | the glass is half full |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe glass is half full the glass is half full and variants: used to refer to an optimistic outlook on a situation or life in general. Conversely the glass is half empty and variants: used to refer to a pessimistic outlook. In later use also in glass-half-full and glass-half-empty as adjectives, designating optimistic or pessimistic people, outlooks, etc. Cf. half adv. Phrases 3. Π 1939 Old Line (Univ. Maryland) 9 No. 3. 17/1 Adage. An optimist is one whose glass is half full; a pessimist is one whose glass is half empty. 1968 Life 23 Feb. (advt.) Is the glass half empty or half full? If you think it's half empty, maybe the Peace Corps is not for you. 1988 F. Ridenour Untying your Knots iii. 37 It all goes back to your glass-half-empty view of life. 1993 New Yorker 18 Oct. 42/3 Mr. King seems like a real glass-half-full kind of guy. 2017 C. Wang Takedown xi. 53 Ailey got stuck with the smallest bedroom in the brownstone, but glass half-full, it had the largest closet. < as lemmas |
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