exhilaration vs rose-colored glasses

exhilaration

noun
  • The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated. 

  • The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. 

rose-colored glasses

noun
  • An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses. 

How often have the words exhilaration and rose-colored glasses occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )