paint a gloomy picture

[paint a gloomy picture] {v. phr.}

To describe something in a gloomy, pessimistic way.

* /We are sad because the weather forecast has painted a gloomy picture for all of next week when we go on vacation./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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