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 Hungarian: rózsaszín szemüvegen át néz 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