see through rose-colored glasses



see through rose-colored glasses

Also, look through rose-colored glasses. Take an optimistic view of something, as in Kate enjoys just about every activity; she sees the world through rose-colored glasses, or If only Marvin wouldn't be so critical, if he could look through rose-colored glasses once in a while, he'd be much happier . The adjectives rosy and rose-colored have been used in the sense of "hopeful" or "optimistic" since the 1700s; the current idiom dates from the 1850s.
See also: glass, see

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
BasmathBAS-math (English)Biblical, Biblical Latin
BlanchBLANCHEnglish
Apostolos-Greek
Matthan-Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Hassan-Arabic, Persian, Urdu
Meginhard-Ancient Germanic