Timeline for Color-based antonym of "blues"?
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| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:10 | comment | added | Sridhar Ratnakumar | Yea, I upvoted this answer - inasmuch as it is interesting and relevant (if not 100% yet) to hear and learn of all these color-based terms to describe feeling-states! I'll let this question simmer for some time to see what comes up. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | Weather Vane | That's why I used the other phrase in my example sentence. It is a momentary thing. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:06 | comment | added | Sridhar Ratnakumar | I'd add that one important critieria is to capture the optimistic (as in, glass half full kind) nature of this emotion. One may even be sufferng from some health condition, yet feeling optimistic and delighted. This is where "in the pink" becomes tricky. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:05 | comment | added | Sridhar Ratnakumar | The sample sentence doesn't necessarily need the phrase "has got the", as "is" (followed by an adjective) will also do. Edited the question accordingly. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @BoldenBen but not "Sridhar has got the roses." Sometimes the asker is too restrictive about how the word will be used. On StackOverflow there is the concept of the XY Problem where OP asks this but actually wants to do that. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 14:59 | comment | added | BoldBen | The idiom "everything's rosy" exists though, although it's not that common. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 14:56 | comment | added | BoldBen | @EdwinAshworth I agree, "in the pink" is fine but I've never heard a song including the line "I got the pinks real good" | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 14:20 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'In the pink' is the reverse metaphor, good spot, but there's not a word that will fit OP's sample sentence. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 13:44 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2020 at 13:30 | history | answered | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |