glass-half-empty
adjEtymology From the expression "Is the glass half empty or half full?", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.
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Idiomatic, Of a person pessimistic
- Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”2006, Laura Klepacki, Avon: Building The World's Premier Company For Women:
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