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rose-colored glasses

NOUN
fantasy view of situation
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With a bearish call on Nvidia’s stock and a neutral view of Advanced Micro Devices’ stock, Seaport Research’s Jay Goldberg is by no means looking at the artificial-intelligence trade with rose-colored glasses.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 18, 2025

But that’s exactly what director Megan Park’s feature debut is: a short, sweet gem of a coming-of-age story that will leave you looking back at your adolescence with rose-colored glasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

By that time, my rose-colored glasses and NPR-fueled sense of my own superior powers of understanding had already taken a severe beating.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2024

Vu, the migration specialist, said older workers who return to their villages after layoffs often don’t want to go back to a city where they “had their rose-colored glasses pulled off” by the daily struggle.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024

"That always happens when someone dies. People put on rose-colored glasses and talk about the good times."

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon