wear rose-colored glasses

English

Alternative forms

• look through rose-colored glasses, look through rose-tinted glasses, see through rose-colored glasses, view through rose-colored glasses

Pronunciation

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Verb

wear rose-colored glasses (third-person singular simple present wears rose-colored glasses, present participle wearing rose-colored glasses, simple past wore rose-colored glasses, past participle worn rose-colored glasses)

1. (idiomatic) To see the positive in things while being oblivious to the negative.

Translations

to be excessively optimistic

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: վարդագույն ակնոց դնել (vardaguyn aknocʻ dnel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vidět svět přes růžové brýle
• Dutch: kijken met een rose bril
• Estonian: läbi roosade prillide vaatama
• Finnish: katsoa asioita ruusunpunaisten silmälasien läpi
• French: voir la vie en rose (fr), voir le monde en rose (fr)
• German: etwas durch die rosarote Brille sehen (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: feic an saol trí spéaclaí bándearga
• Italian: guardare con gli occhi di un bambino, guardare con occhi di bambino
• Japanese: 色眼鏡を掛ける (iromegane o kakeru), 色眼鏡で見る (iromegane de miru) (also “to be excessively pessimistic”)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: patrzeć przez różowe okulary (pl)
• Portuguese: só ver o lado bom (das coisas)
• Russian: смотре́ть сквозь ро́зовые очки́ (ru) (smotrétʹ skvozʹ rózovyje očkí)
• Scottish Gaelic: bi speuclairean pinc aig, faic an saoghal tro speuclairean bàn-dhearg
• Spanish: ver vida a través de gafas rosadas
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: gweld bywyd drwy sbectol-lliw rhosyn