day in the sun
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]day in the sun (plural days in the sun)
- (idiomatic) A time of glory or ascendancy.
- Synonym: time in the sun
- 1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 210:
- The American Party enjoyed a brief day in the sun: in 1854 proponents elected seventy-five members of the House of Representatives and in Massachusetts garnered 376 of 378 seats in the state legislature.