let daylight in
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Already, timber trusses have been replaced and a 10-foot-high sliding door has been cut in the side to let daylight in and festivities flow out.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
No, it is a measure of how transporting the athletes most touched with genius can be that I’d rather be a hypocrite than let daylight in on magic as far as Lionel Messi is concerned.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2016
In his Victorian study of the monarchy, Walter Bagehot warned, "We must not let daylight in upon magic."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2012
Oh Martin, don't let daylight in on cod psychology!
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2012
This scene let daylight in upon shallow, earnest Hawes, and showed him a certain shallow error he had fallen into.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
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