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单词 to see daylight
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to see daylight
P1. to see daylight: (a) to achieve mental illumination or enlightenment, to begin to understand what was previously puzzling or unclear; (also) to perceive or anticipate a resolution to a problem or difficulty (cf. to see day at day n. Phrases 5c); (b) to come or be brought into the open, to gain public exposure or attention.
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1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 152 By degrees, he saw Daylight, and detested that Nest of Villains as much as we did.
1768 A. Portal Indiscreet Lover ii. 17 He hustled them [sc. the coins] into a great Bag, where I dare swear they will never see Daylight till his Heir breaks the Seal of it.
1833 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 597 Now I began to see daylight in the business of this manufactory.
1883 W. H. Bishop House of Merchant Prince v. 58 I have a lot of his letters, which he would not be at all anxious to have see daylight.
1923 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 47 11 An account of the method was printed but in an out-of-the-way journal and it never saw daylight.
1940 Salt Lake Tribune 7 Jan. d2/4 Since then [sc. November 1933], Salt Lake City has had a continual housing shortage and is just now beginning to see daylight.
1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings viii. 74 Nicholas Lane takes a carrier bag and fills it with tradables, that would never now see daylight.
2006 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 3 For years we have really, really struggled but the committee we have got at the moment is brilliant and we are beginning to see daylight.
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