Green Glasses
. To look through green glasses. To feel jealous of one; to be envious of another’s success.
“If we had an average of theatrical talent, we had also our quantum of stage jealousies; for who looks through his green glasses more peevishly than an actor when his brother Thespian brings down the house with applause.”—C. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 197.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.