to be happy because you do not know or will not accept how bad a situation really is.

James is living in a fool's paradise if he thinks things are always going to be this good.

• close to your heart
• close up shop
• Close your eyes and think of England.
• close your eyes to
• close your eyes to something
• closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
• cloth ears
• cloud on the horizon
• clue in
• clue someone in
• clutch at straws
• C-note
• coast is clear
• coast to coast
• coast-to-coast
• cock-and-bull story
• cock a snook
• cock of the walk
• coffee table book
• cog in the machine
• cog in the wheel
• coin a phrase
• cold fish
• cold-shoulder
• cold-shoulder someone