Etre fleur bleue

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Être fleur bleue, “to be blue flower”, is used to describe someone who is overly romantic, even a bit naive. The expression comes from the German novel “Henri von Ofterdingen” (1811) written by Novalis at the golden Age of Romanticism. 

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