Through rose-coloured spectacles In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "through rose-coloured spectacles", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Zelda Thuong calendar 2021-12-17 11:12

Meaning of Through rose-coloured spectacles

Variants:

rose-tinted spectacles

Through rose-coloured spectacles phrase

If you look at/ see something through rose-coloured spectacles, you focus only the pleasant things about a situation and not notice the unpleasant things.

She is the one always seeing things through rose-coloured spectacles.

The manager saw the plan through rose-coloured spectacles and didn't realize serious problems in it.

Other phrases about:

look at/see sth through rose-coloured/rose-tinted glasses

If you look at/ see something through rose-coloured spectacles/rose-tinted glasses, you focus only the pleasant things about a situation and not notice the unpleasant things.

grateful for small blessings

To appreciate small benefits or opportunities, especially in difficult situations.

 

plastic punk

1. (Adjective) Used to refer to the action of trying and failing to coppy the outrageous, anti-establishment, countercultural looks, attitudes, and styles that were popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s

2. (Noun) Used to indicate a person, band, or type of music that tries and fails to replicate punk rock or punk rockers from the late 1970s or early 1980s

sing a different song/tune

To suddenly change one's attitude, opinion or behavior

lend an ear (to one)

To listen to someone in a sympathetic or attentive way

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be grateful/thankful for small mercies
To be happy that a bad situation is not even worse
Example: My son wasn’t too badly hurt, so my husband and I were thankful for small mercies.
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