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don't judge people through coloured-spectacles

 
 
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Reply Thu 26 Nov, 2009 06:43 am
"don't judge people through coloured-spectacles" is a sentence I excerpted from a book. Does it make sense?
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Intrepid
 
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Reply Thu 26 Nov, 2009 07:15 am
@Adverb,
The more common phrase is rose-coloured glasses. if someone thinks about or looks at something with rose-coloured glasses, they think it is more pleasant than it really is.

The phrase coloured-spectacles is also acceptable but not as common and means the same thing.
martindorans
 
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Reply Thu 26 Nov, 2009 06:09 pm
@Intrepid,
It makes sense to me.

What it suggests is that the best judgments are those made without any form of prejudice or bias. If your have a prejudice or bias then the way in which you view them may be 'coloured' by that bias.

Easier said than done if you ask me!
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oolongteasup
 
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Reply Thu 26 Nov, 2009 08:06 pm
@Adverb,
if, like me, you can

bring a shade of grey to any colourful spectacle

then you know it makes sense
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