Sekirov Dictionary

paint a rosy picture

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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. — 1948

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