What is Pollyanna?
1.
An internal optimist in the face of adversity (reality).
From the title character of the 1960 Disney movie starring a young Hayley Mills.
I lost my job, my girlfriend and someone stole my car. What the fuck do you mean I should cheer up, Pollyanna?
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2.
Noun- an excessively or blindly optimistic person or Verb-unreasonably or illogically optimistic
I was going to jail but my girlfriend was being a pollyanna saying it would be a learning experience.
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