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blauäugig (adj)  blue-eyed, having blue eyes; naive, overly trusting

„Weil wir so blauäugig waren, haben wir ein volles Jahr verloren“, sagt Otto Bernhardt, finanzpolitischer Sprecher der Union.
“Because we were so naive, we lost a full year,” says Otto Bernhardt, the Union’s [CDU/CSU party] spokesman for financial policy.

Related: die Blauäugigkeit naiveté / naivety, naiv naive

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