informalA person who brings happiness into the lives of others:he hasn’t exactly been a ray of sunshine up to now...
Scottish fiction, for all its manifest and manifold qualities, is not blessed with many rays of sunshine.
As P G Wodehouse famously commented in Blandings Castle: ‘It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.’
Cathy said: ‘Shannon was a little star and our little ray of sunshine.’