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daylight
[ dey-lahyt ]
noun
- the light of day:
At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
- public knowledge or awareness; openness:
The newspaper article brought the scandal out into the daylight.
- the period of day; daytime.
- a clear space or gap, especially between two people or things that should be close together, as between the knees of a horseback rider and a saddle.
- disagreement or mental distance between two people:
There's very little daylight between the two senators' stances on the issue.
- daylights, Informal. mental soundness, consciousness, or wits: I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!
The noise scared the daylights out of us.
I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!
adjective
- Photography. of, relating to, or being film made for exposure by the natural light of day.
verb (used with object)
- to suffuse (an interior space) with artificial light or with daylight filtered through translucent materials, as roofing panels.
daylight
/ ˈɪˌɪ /
noun
- light from the sun
- ( as modifier )
daylight film
- the period when it is light; daytime
- daybreak
- see daylight
- to understand something previously obscure
- to realize that the end of a difficult task is approaching
Other Word Forms
- ·岹l noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of daylight1
Idioms and Phrases
- see daylight, to progress to a point where completion of a difficult task seems possible or probable.
More idioms and phrases containing daylight
In addition to the idiom beginning with daylight , also see beat the living daylights out of ; begin to see daylight ; in broad daylight ; let daylight through ; scare out of one's wits (the living daylights out of) .Example Sentences
Detectives said they are still confirming the exact dates and times of all the incidents, but said some occurred in broad daylight and others in the middle of the night.
Mr Jones said "start early enough" to ensure there was enough daylight for the return leg and consider rescheduling if the weather was unpredictable.
In the daylight, it’s clearer that the SEALs are holding an ordinary family at gunpoint — a husband and wife and two daughters — while they take up positions upstairs.
This attack happened in broad daylight yesterday, there was a food market going on in the town centre so there were lots of people around.
Several weeks later a large brown bear was captured on video running through the centre of the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikolas in broad daylight, bounding past cars and lunging at people on the pavement.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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