see daylight
Glimpse the end
To see daylight is to glimpse the end of a long effort or difficult situation: After months of negotiations, we're finally seeing daylight.
The metaphor evokes emerging from darkness or confinement—a tunnel, a pile of work, a complicated problem.
I've been buried in paperwork, but I'm starting to see daylight.
State of being understandable
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
grasp · revelation · awareness · aha moment · discernment · perception · recognition · dawn on
Enclosed underground route
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- liberationRelease from constraint
- emergeCome out into view
surface · fugitive · jailbreak · breakout · flee · evade · elude · refuge
Sudden important advance
- headwayForward progress achieved
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
- completionAct of finishing
finish line · turnaround · milestone · resolution · progress · forward motion · clearing · culmination
clarity
State of being understandable
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
comprehension · grasp · revelation · awareness · aha moment · discernment · perception · recognition · dawn on · cognition
tunnel
Enclosed underground route
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- liberationRelease from constraint
emerge · surface · fugitive · jailbreak · breakout · flee · evade · elude · refuge · sanctuary
breakthrough
Sudden important advance
- headwayForward progress achieved
- advancementForward movement or promotion
- momentumProduct of mass, velocity
completion · finish line · turnaround · milestone · resolution · progress · forward motion · clearing · culmination · home stretch
see daylighthit a wall
Reach an impassable obstacle
spin one's wheels · tread water · go around in circles · stagnate · flounder
daylight, sees, seen, seeing, seer, sight, sightly, unsightly, sightless