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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's the opposite of rose colored glasses? I'm searching for a figure of speech.
I'm looking for a colloquialism here. If someone only looks at the sunny side, we say they've got rose colored glasses on.
What do you call it when someone only looks at the shitty side of things. I need something more colorful than "pessimistic" or more folksy than "glass half empty."
See, us optimists need to have kneejerk insults too. (isn't that wonderful?)
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Bucky
(54,020 posts)Not sure it has the impact I'm looking for. This is for an academic argument with someone who says the KKK represents America but MLK doesn't--essentially the kind of myopic intellectual who accedes patriotism and the flag to conservatives and dismisses all arguments based on the Constitution as the "work of slaveholders".
You've got somebody with major blinders on.
I will think some more.
How academic is this guy?
Bucky
(54,020 posts)You knew it was a male from the obstinacy.
But you were wrong to assume it was singular. It's a pack of gentlemen. Argument isn't good enough. I need the power of poetic imagery to win.
Bucky
(54,020 posts)The opposite of rose colored glasses is blinders!!
Thank you!!
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Even though I did it inadvertently.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)I think "Donnie Downer" would work.
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Feces filters?
Blinded by bowel movements?
-JB
It's all bad.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)Merde colored glasses.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)My wife wears them when it comes to her kids.
Bucky
(54,020 posts)probably entered while you were typing. Exactly, though. The perfect metaphor. Thanks.
Lochloosa
(16,065 posts)bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Winnie the Pooh's sad donkey friend. A guy I used to work with had such a negative attitude towards everything that his nickname (behind is back) was Eeyore.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Appropriated from the shitstain that was Spiro Agnew.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Sh*t-stained glasses(copyright)?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)need a lot of help to see through the encroaching darkiness.
ismnotwasm
(41,988 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)It's entered my idiolect.
ismnotwasm
(41,988 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Thanks!
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)phallon
(260 posts)Bucky
(54,020 posts)tblue37
(65,395 posts)Should I copyright it?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's unmistakable in it's descriptiveness
Bucky
(54,020 posts)or cherry tree picking, in the case of George Washington
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Looking at the firing squad through a blindfold.