rose-tinted spectacles
Naively hopeful perspective
Rose-tinted spectacles are an optimistic or nostalgic way of seeing things, filtering out flaws and difficulties.
The metaphor imagines glasses that literally cast everything in a rosy glow: She looks at her childhood through rose-tinted spectacles.
The phrase is more common in British English; Americans tend to say rose-colored glasses.
- rose-coloredPinkish or overly hopeful
- optimismTendency to expect good
- rosy outlookCheerful expectation of success
- bright sidePositive aspect of something
- glassesCorrective eyewear or tumblers
idealism · halo effect · wishful thinking · sanguinity · naivety · vision · romanticism · silver lining · sentimentality · hopefulness · starry-eyed · pie in the sky · sunshine and rainbows · positivity · bias · utopianism · nostalgia · blind spot
rose-tinted spectaclescynicism
Distrust of human sincerity
pessimism · dark glasses · jaundiced eye · doom and gloom · negativity
rose-tinted spectaclesrealism
Accepting things as they are
disillusionment · brutal honesty · unvarnished truth · warts and all · reality check
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