"see the light of day" meaning in All languages combined

See see the light of day on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-see the light of day.ogg [Australia] Forms: sees the light of day [present, singular, third-person], seeing the light of day [participle, present], saw the light of day [past], seen the light of day [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|see<,,saw,seen> the light of day}} see the light of day (third-person singular simple present sees the light of day, present participle seeing the light of day, simple past saw the light of day, past participle seen the light of day)
  1. (idiomatic) To appear; to be published or disseminated. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-see_the_light_of_day-en-verb-4jIlZ4XC
  2. (idiomatic) To be realised. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-see_the_light_of_day-en-verb-anrCQXdy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: daylight, the light Translations (appear; be realised): 出現 (Chinese Mandarin), 出现 (chūxiàn) (english: to appear) (Chinese Mandarin), 誕生 (Chinese Mandarin), 诞生 (dànshēng) (english: to come into being) (Chinese Mandarin), 實現 (Chinese Mandarin), 实现 (shíxiàn) (english: to realize) (Chinese Mandarin), 問世 (Chinese Mandarin), 问世 (wènshì) (english: to be published) (Chinese Mandarin), nähdä päivänvalo (Finnish), voir le jour (French), das Licht der Welt erblicken (German), βλέπω το φως (vlépo to fos) (Greek), napvilágot lát (Hungarian), megvalósul (Hungarian), megszületik (Hungarian), valóra válik (Hungarian), se dagens lys (Norwegian Bokmål), vedea lumina zilei (Romanian), ver la luz del día (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'appear; be realised': 50 50

Inflected forms

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