love goggles

love goggles

The inability to see any flaws in one's beloved. Dana's love goggles keep her from seeing how controlling her girlfriend is.
See also: goggle, love
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • just for love
  • for love
  • for love/for the love of something
  • all the world loves a lover
  • lover
  • play for love
  • the/(one's) mother tongue
  • your mother tongue
  • drop the L-bomb
  • love muscle
References in periodicals archive
The love goggles are off for Sarah when Max finds Callum's gun, and she discovers Beth's been used as a drug mule.
"She had her love goggles on and didn't care what anybody had to say about him.
In this section, Alley sees the world through love goggles, realizing one night as his lover lays her head on his chest and drifts toward the Absence of Angels, "I am I."