rose-tinted spectacles

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rose-tinted spectacles pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of rose-colored glasses
    • 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated‎[1], →ISBN, page 640:
      THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
      [...] One cannot but feel, however, that when writing, Mr. Nock was wearing a particularly rose-tinted pair of spectacles, such is his enthusiasm for the "Premier Line".
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