see the light of day
Verb
Meaning
(idiomatic) To appear; to be published or disseminated.
(idiomatic) To be realised.
Many projects were planned and started, but none saw the light of day.
Synonyms
Examples
The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
Letterman: "I want to thank you folks for coming out for this run-through show. Thank you very much. This, of course, will never see the light of day. You won't miss a thing tonight."
I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.