Sunshine and Rainbows

Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A sarcastic phrase for a view of reality that is unrealistically cheerful and detached from actual risks. In engineering slang, sunshine and rainbows thinking usually fails first under production pressure.

    In plain English: An unrealistically positive view that ignores real problems.

    Example: "The project update was all sunshine and rainbows until someone asked about rollback, data quality, and the missing load test."

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