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Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Happy,positivethings, sometimes with aconnotationofunrealisticexpectations.Synonyms:rainbows and unicorns,sunshine and kittens,sunshine and lollipops,sunshine and roses,sweetness and light;see alsoThesaurus:pleasureAntonym:doom and gloom2011, Karen Kingsbury,Found, page236:[…]she saw those words these days, and it was easy to take them lightly, to think that God was saying life would be allsunshine and rainbows, good plans and easily answered prayers.2011, Joe Quinn, Camille Thompson,College of William and Mary 2012: Off the Record: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 allsunshine and rainbows.2013, Victor D. Franco,Unleashed:ELVA: You know, you think everything islovely. You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding withsunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.2021February 3, Drachinifel, 14:49 from the start, inGuadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN)[1], archived fromthe originalon4 December 2022:It wasn'tallsunshine and rainbowsfor the Japanese, though, although the first U.S. Navy strike force had...decidedly-mixed results; the Avengers in that group got lost and went after the cruiserToneon their way back (missing), and the Wildcats got neatly peeled away by a single flight of Zeros, leaving the Dauntlesses wide open to another dozen Japanese fighters.
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