rose-tinted spectacles

A form of rose-colored glasses — A cognitive or perceptual bias where an individual views something in an overly optimistic or positive light, often failing to recognize its negative aspects.

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nounrose-tinted spectacles pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of rose-colored glasses.

    THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] One cannot but feel, however, that when writing, Mr. Nock was wearing a particularly rose-tinted pair of spectacles, such is his enthusiasm for the "Premier Line".

    1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, →ISBN, page 640
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