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rosy-eyed en · ADJ
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Optimistic; idealistic.
A rosy-eyed optimist
Heubeck concludes: "It's not because of some rosy-eyed view of what railways used to be like, and we are only wanting to reopen it because there used to be one. It's because the railway would make a practical difference to the prospects of people not yet born and young people here today in this fantastic part of the country."
2025 April 30, Andy Comfort, “£10 million closer to Carlisle”, in RAIL, number 1034, page 43:
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rose-tinted · rose-coloured