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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begin to see daylight

If you can't guess now," smiled young Prescott, his eyes gleaming, "you'll soon begin to see daylight through my plan!

From The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

I can begin to see daylight in spots, where it looks like a remedy and a real one.

From Friday, the Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson

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

I think I begin to see daylight in spite of the darkness.

From The Golf Course Mystery by Chester K. Steele

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 Montague Summers