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sunshine and rainbows

sunshine and rainbows noun: happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.

Noun

sunshine and rainbows pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, plural, plural-only) Happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.
    • […] 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.2011, Karen Kingsbury, Found, page 236
    • 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.2011, Joe Quinn, Camille Thompson, College of William and Mary 2012: Off the Record
    Antonyms:
    doom and gloom

Examples of sunshine and rainbows in a sentence

  • You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding with sunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.2013, Victor D. Franco, Unleashed:
  • It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Japanese, though, although the first U.S.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 14:49 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04...

Synonyms of sunshine and rainbows

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Antonyms

Questions about sunshine and rainbows

What does sunshine and rainbows mean?
Sunshine and rainbows means happy, positive things, sometimes with a connotation of unrealistic expectations.
How do you use sunshine and rainbows in a sentence?
You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding with sunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.
What part of speech is sunshine and rainbows?
Sunshine and rainbows is a noun.

Words near sunshine and rainbows in the dictionary

  1. sunshine
  2. sunshine agenda
  3. sunshine agendas
  4. sunshine and kittens
  5. sunshine and lollipops
  6. sunshine and rainbows
  7. sunshine and roses
  8. Sunshine Bay
  9. sunshine cake
  10. sunshine cakes
  11. Sunshine Coast

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