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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
(9,351 posts)Bucky
(53,792 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
(53,792 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
(53,792 posts)The opposite of rose colored glasses is blinders!!
Thank you!!
dhol82
(9,351 posts)Even though I did it inadvertently.
2naSalit
(86,031 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
(19,356 posts)Merde colored glasses.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Lochloosa
(16,018 posts)My wife wears them when it comes to her kids.
Bucky
(53,792 posts)probably entered while you were typing. Exactly, though. The perfect metaphor. Thanks.
Lochloosa
(16,018 posts)bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 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
(29,676 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Appropriated from the shitstain that was Spiro Agnew.
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)Sh*t-stained glasses(copyright)?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)need a lot of help to see through the encroaching darkiness.
ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)It's entered my idiolect.
ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Thanks!
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)phallon
(260 posts)Bucky
(53,792 posts)tblue37
(64,979 posts)Should I copyright it?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's unmistakable in it's descriptiveness
Bucky
(53,792 posts)or cherry tree picking, in the case of George Washington
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,009 posts)Looking at the firing squad through a blindfold.