WTH are rose colored glasses?

[Josudes]

I am watching Heroes and I have heard the phrase before. What does "Rose colored glasses" mean? Obviously it means you are one sided but I'm not exactly sure where it comes into play.

 

[Alyada]

I am watching Heroes and I have heard the phrase before. What does "Rose colored glasses" mean? Obviously it means you are one sided but I'm not exactly sure where it comes into play.

Heroes is awesome.

"Rose Colored Glasses" is a phrase that literally means someone is looking through a filter that only allows them to see good and one side of the argument.

 

[Sirjarvis]

Cyclops from the X-Men wears ruby tinted glasses when he doesn't have his visor on, maybe that's the reference?

 

[Tristam Green]

/facepalm.

No. It has nothing to do with Cyclops, or the X-Men.

In fact, country singer John Conlee had a hit in the early 1980s with "Rose Colored Glasses".


It's a term along the same lines as "jaded".

 

[Trippyhippy]

Some unfortunate people never take their rose-colored glasses off, but everyone wears these spectacles occasionally. This attitude of cheerful optimism, of seeing everything in an attractive, pleasant light, has always been with us, while the expression itself goes back to at least 1861, when it is first recorded in 'Tom Brown at Oxford': 'Oxford was a sort of Utopia to the Captain.He continued to behold towers, and quadrangles, and chapels, through rose-colored glasses.

It is an idiom. An idiom is an expression, that is a term or phrase whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use.

 

[Zephayra]

"Rose tint my world, keep me safe from my trouble and pain" - Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

[Jeska]

You see the world through your rose tinted glasses as all nice, colourful and happy. As far as you are concerned everything looks fine as you can see.

 

[Eilistrae]

this thread was over when Trippy resonded.