begin to see daylight

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

Not only is her life strangely mysterious and obscure, but the rubbish of half-a-dozen romancing biographers must needs be cleared away before we can even begin to see daylight.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague

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

From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard

"Now I begin to see daylight," said Mr. Delaney.

From A Little Mother to the Others by Meade, L. T.

Ha!" said the old woman, laughing and rubbing her hands together; "you begin to see daylight, do you?

From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna