sunshine and rainbows

noun

Happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.

Similar
rainbows and unicornsrainbows and butterfliessunshine and kittenssunshine and lollipopssunshine and rosessweetness and lightbeatitudebliss
Opposite
doom and gloom
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Meanings

nounsunshine and rainbows pl (plural only)
  1. idiomaticinformalpluralplural onlyHappy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.

    ELVA: You know, you think everything is lovely. You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding with sunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.

    2013, Victor D. Franco, Unleashed
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    […] she saw those words these days, and it was easy to take them lightly, to think that God was saying life would be all sunshine and rainbows, good plans and easily answered prayers.

    2011, Karen Kingsbury, Found, page 236

    The students are of an astonishingly high quality, it's very hard to find an uninteresting professor, the campus is beautiful, the night life is fun and the campus community is overall really strong. That being said, it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

    2011, Joe Quinn, Camille Thompson, College of William and Mary 2012: Off the Record

    It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Japanese, though, although the first U.S. Navy strike force had... decidedly-mixed results; the Avengers in that group got lost and went after the cruiser Tone on their way back (missing), and the Wildcats got neatly peeled away by a single flight of Zeros, leaving the Dauntlesses wide open to another dozen Japanese fighters.

    2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 14:49 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022

    Synonyms: rainbows and unicorns, rainbows and butterflies, sunshine and kittens, sunshine and lollipops, sunshine and roses, sweetness and light, beatitude, bliss · Antonyms: doom and gloom

Synonyms & antonyms

nounHappy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.

Similar
rainbows and unicornsrainbows and butterfliessunshine and kittenssunshine and lollipopssunshine and rosessweetness and lightbeatitudeblissdelectationdelightecstasyeuphorialustnirvanapleasureraptureravishmenttransport
Opposite
doom and gloom
Also see
beer and skittlespeaches and creamrainbows and butterfliesrainbows and unicornssunshine and kittenssunshine and lollipopssunshine and roses
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APA

sunshine and rainbows. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunshine%20and%20rainbows

MLA

“sunshine and rainbows.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunshine%20and%20rainbows. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sunshine and rainbows,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunshine%20and%20rainbows.

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