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paint a rosy picture

verb

Definitions

  1. To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner.

    • Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncensored reports told a different story […] [with] Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual.
    • The company did paint a rosy picture of its investment banking division, booking record revenues of $1.7bn and saying its backlog of work stood at record levels.

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