begin to see daylight

Realize that a task is finally nearing completion, that success or the right solution is near at hand. For example, I've been working on this experiment for two years and I'm finally beginning to see daylight. The noun daylight has been a metaphor for knowledge and solution since the late 1600s. Also see light at the end of the tunnel; see the light.

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Now I begin to see daylight everywhere; the meaning of the things which puzzled me.

“I begin to see daylight,” he said.

However, like Sindbad the Sailor in the cavern, I begin to see daylight.

Now, do you begin to see daylight?”

I believe I begin to see daylight.

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