look at/see sth through rose-coloured/tinted glasses
(UK also look at/see sth through rose-coloured/tinted spectacles)Definition
› to see only the pleasant things about a situation and not notice the things that are unpleasant: She's always looked at life through rose-tinted glasses.Naive and trustingInexperienced (of people)
(Definition of look at/see sth through rose-coloured/tinted glasses from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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look ahead phrasal verb
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look at sth phrasal verb (EXAMINE)
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look at sth phrasal verb (HAVE OPINION)
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look at sth phrasal verb (READ)
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look at sth phrasal verb (THINK)
- look at/see sth through rose-coloured/tinted glasses idiom
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look back phrasal verb
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look daggers at sb idiom
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look down on sb phrasal verb
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look exclamation
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look forward to sth phrasal verb
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Synonyms and related words:
- an easy touch idiom
- be easy game/meat idiom
- be easy prey idiom
- be wet behind the ears idiom
- butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth idiom
- childlike adjective
- dewy-eyed adjective
- impressionable adjective
- ingenuous adjective
- jejune adjective
- naivety noun
- pushover noun
- see things in black and white idiom
- simple adjective (FOOLISH)
- soft touch noun
- sucker noun (FOOLISH PERSON)
- trusting adjective
- unsophisticated adjective
- unsuspecting adjective
- wide-eyed adjective
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