see daylight

Though they were getting airplay, the band’s album, which they recorded in 1981, didn’t see daylight because the ill-fated Rock-A-Mod Records, which they recorded the album for, folded before it could be released.

They get few opportunities to exercise, or even to see daylight.

District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by Trump in 2017, to order Smith to preserve all records and communications from his cases against Trump, which he fears “will never see daylight.”

But Eric Adams can still see daylight and is determined not to quit.

But it reflects the perspective of enough of the city's electorate that Adams can still see daylight and appears determined not to quit.