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Hi:Soup dumplings , which are often called steamed buns on menu, get their name from the fact that the dumpling skin hold not only a core that is often made of pork and crab-Jewish connoisseurs sometimes refer to soup dumplings as "double-tray specials"---but also a liquid so tasty that diners tend to be sanguine about the clothing stains they acquire while trying to get to it.Could you please tell me the meaning of "sanguine about" ? I cannot understand the sentence in red, even when I check the phrase up in dictionaries, which told me it means "If you are sanguine about something, you are cheerful and confident that things will happen in the way you want them to"

Jhumjhum · Accepted Answer

'Sanguin about' means 'very sure about'
The word 'sanguin' means hopeful/confident/optimistic.
Normally the meaning 'confident' is widely used for 'sanguin' .

Nona the brit · Answer

It is stretching the meaning a little but they mean that they know they will get messy but don't mind because the food is so good. Sanguine - happy about something, confident that something will happen.

Mahlon · Answer

I'm not as ncie as Mona.  The use of "sanguine" in this sentence  is simply wrong.  The writer is probably trying to say that the  diners are "indifferent" to the stains they acquire while eating.   Being "cheerfully confident" about the stains simply does not  work.  This is an example of someone trying to use a word, the  meaning of which they really do not understand.  This is why you  should only use those words over which you have mastery.  This is  also why *** made dictionaries.

Marius Hancu · Answer

MahlonI'm not as nice as Mona. The use of "sanguine" in this sentence is simply wrong. The writer is probably trying to say that the diners are "indifferent" to the stains they acquire while eating. Being "cheerfully confident" about the stains simply does not work. This is an example of someone trying to use a word, the meaning of which they really do not understand. This is why you should only use those words over which you have mastery. This is also why *** made dictionaries.

I agree.
Perhaps the author thought it's a full synonym for confident (see the entry in this dictionary).
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sanguine

4 : anticipating the best : marked by eager hopefulness : ardently or confidently optimistic <his sanguine temper and fearlessness of mind -- Jane Austen> <too sanguine about success -- Ernest Beaglehole> <a sanguine happy-go-lucky habit of thought -- J.G.Cozzens>

synonym see http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=confident

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BarbaraPA · Answer

Maybe the author was thinking of sangfroid.

Hly2004 · Answer

Thank you all!!!;-)

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