sunshine and rainbows

Definitions

Happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.

idiomatic, informal, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] she saw⟳ those words these days, and it was easy to take⟳ them lightly, to think⟳ that God was saying life would be all sunshine and rainbows, good plans and easily answered prayers.”

“The students are of an astonishingly high quality, it's very hard to find⟳ an uninteresting professor, the campus is beautiful, the night life is fun and the campus community is overall really strong. That being said, it's not all sunshine and rainbows.”

“ELVA: You know⟳, you think⟳ everything is lovely. You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding with sunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.”

“It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Japanese, though, although the first U.S. Navy strike⟳ force⟳ had... decidedly-mixed results; the Avengers in that group got lost and went after the cruiser Tone on their way back (missing), and the Wildcats got neatly peeled away by a single flight of Zeros, leaving the Dauntlesses wide open⟳ to another dozen Japanese fighters.”

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