单词 | to see through rose-tinted spectacles |
释义 | > as lemmasto see through rose-tinted spectacles (also glasses) to see through rose-tinted spectacles (also glasses) and variants: to regard (circumstances, etc.) with unfounded favour or optimism, to have an idealistic view of. Cf. rose-coloured adj. 3. ΚΠ 1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Feb. 113/2 To them all men appear good, all nature seems beautiful. Such temperaments see everything coleur de rose—they wear pink spectacles.] 1861 Court Life at Naples II. xxvii. 290 Helen sighed; for had she not also viewed the prospect of a Neapolitan ménage through rose-tinted glasses? 1875 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 6 May 358/1 We find this rose tint laid on many things,..so making them appear under false colours. Many, too, put on rose-tinted spectacles, as it were, and behold things looking fair and lovely. 1921 Freeman 17 Aug. 546/2 He looks..through rose-tinted glasses of what he doubtless prefers to call romance, but which we prefer to call sentimentality. 1956 C. Wilson Outsider viii. 245 The good-natured, eupeptic vulgarian who sees life through rose-tinted spectacles. 1977 Church Times 25 Feb. 7/2 There are no rose-tinted specs shading the very clear eyes of Elizabeth West as she describes life in her Hovel in the Hills. 2006 Sporting Gun Dec. 53/3 These times are always remembered kindly, through rose-tinted glasses. < as lemmas |
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