"paint a rosy picture" meaning in English

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      "form": "paints a rosy picture",
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    },
    {
      "form": "painting a rosy picture",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "painted a rosy picture",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "painted a rosy picture",
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      ]
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      "expansion": "paint a rosy picture (third-person singular simple present paints a rosy picture, present participle painting a rosy picture, simple past and past participle painted a rosy picture)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 January 12, “Russia: Tombstones & Wolf Traps”, in Time, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncensored reports told a different story […] [with] Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 15, David Litterick, “Goldman is hit by sub-prime problems”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 9, Nicholas Kulish, Helene Cooper, “Holbrooke Says Afghan War 'Tougher Than Iraq'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan. […] He said needs included not only ground forces but also an array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, military police officers, special operations, cargo and attack helicopters and more.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-paint_a_rosy_picture-en-verb-7deAFEU9",
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          "prospective",
          "prospective"
        ],
        [
          "upbeat",
          "upbeat"
        ],
        [
          "optimistic",
          "optimistic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "rose-colored glasses"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "oraiopoió",
          "sense": "to describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner",
          "word": "ωραιοποιώ"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner",
          "word": "rózsás képet fest"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paint a rosy picture"
}

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      "form": "paints a rosy picture",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "painting a rosy picture",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "painted a rosy picture",
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "painted a rosy picture",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rose-colored glasses"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 January 12, “Russia: Tombstones & Wolf Traps”, in Time, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncensored reports told a different story […] [with] Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 15, David Litterick, “Goldman is hit by sub-prime problems”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 February 9, Nicholas Kulish, Helene Cooper, “Holbrooke Says Afghan War 'Tougher Than Iraq'”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-08-23",
          "text": "Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan. […] He said needs included not only ground forces but also an array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, military police officers, special operations, cargo and attack helicopters and more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner."
      ],
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          "prospective"
        ],
        [
          "upbeat",
          "upbeat"
        ],
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          "optimistic",
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        ]
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        "(idiomatic) To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner."
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "oraiopoió",
      "sense": "to describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner",
      "word": "ωραιοποιώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner",
      "word": "rózsás képet fest"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paint a rosy picture"
}