rose-colored glasses

English

Alternative forms

• rose-coloured glasses, rose-tinted glasses

Noun

rose-colored glasses (plural only)

1. Glasses that are tinted in a pink or rose shade.
2. (idiomatic) An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is.

Related terms

• rose-colored (or) rose-coloured

Derived terms

• see through rose-colored glasses (or) see through rose-tinted glasses
• look through rose-colored glasses (or) look through rose-tinted glasses
• view through rose-colored glasses (or) view through rose-tinted glasses
• wear rose-colored glasses (or) wear rose-tinted glasses

Translations

idiomatic

• French: voir la vie en rose (fr)
• Scottish Gaelic: speuclairean pinc (gd) m pl

• Serbo-Croatian: svijetla strana medalje (sh)