rose-colored glasses

English

Phrase appears as early as 1830 according to OED.[1]

rose-colored glasses pl (plural only) (American spelling)

(idiomatic) An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is.
- 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
  Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored,‎ glasses.

overly optimistic perception of something

Catalan: ulleres violetes f pl
Czech: růžové brýle f pl
Danish: rose bril c
Estonian: roosad prillid pl
Finnish: ruusunpunaiset silmälasit pl
French: lunettes roses (fr) f sg
German: rosarote Brille f sg
Irish: spéaclaí bándearg m pl
Italian: gli occhi di un bambino m pl, occhi di bambino m pl
Japanese: 色眼鏡 (ja) (いろめがね, iro megane) (also “overly negative perception”)
Maori: te paki o Hewa
Polish: różowe okulary nvir
Russian: ро́зовые очки́ n pl (rózovyje očkí)
Scottish Gaelic: speuclairean bàn-dhearg m pl, speuclairean pinc m pl
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} svijetla strana medalje f pl
Spanish: gafas violeta f pl, gafas rosadas f pl
Swedish: (se något i/genom) ett rosa skimmer (literally, "(see something in/through) a pink shimmer")
Welsh: sbectol-lliw rhosyn f sg

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