Idiom
wear rose-colored glasses
Meaning
To see the positive in things while being oblivious to the negative.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You wear rose-colored glasses when you look at your past.”
“He wears rose-colored glasses, so he ignores all the problems in his new relationship.”
“Despite the mounting evidence of the company's decline, the CEO continued to wear rose-colored glasses, insisting that their future remained bright.”
Examples
simple
“You wear rose-colored glasses when you look at your past.”
contextual
“He wears rose-colored glasses, so he ignores all the problems in his new relationship.”
complex
“Despite the mounting evidence of the company's decline, the CEO continued to wear rose-colored glasses, insisting that their future remained bright.”
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