through rose-colored glasses

through rose-colored glasses

With a generally optimistic and cheerful attitude. I know nostalgia can be misleading, but I really look at my childhood through rose-colored glasses. I think Mary is only capable of looking through rose-colored glasses, like she's in complete denial of the negative things in life.
See also: glass, through
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

through rose-colored glasses

With an unduly cheerful, optimistic, or favorable view of things: see the world through rose-colored glasses.
See also: glass, through
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • look (at something) through rose-colored glasses
  • look (at something) through rose-tinted glasses
  • look (at something) through rose-tinted spectacles
  • tint
  • through rose-coloured spectacles
  • rose-colored glasses, to look/see through
  • spectacle
  • look (at something) through rose-coloured spectacles
  • rose-colored
  • see (something) through rose-colored glasses