light of day

"I mean, if the song wasn't very good, it would have never seen the light of day. But I rated the song."

There are days where I have not seen the light of day.

In a short emailed comment to The Times, Villanueva said Baltazar had been arrested for burglary and not loitering, and that the allegations against him were “demonstrably false, defamatory” claims relying on “false allegations made recently regarding events from thirty years ago that will never see the light of day in a courtroom.”

“I'm very hopeful that it will see the light of day. There's so many bills and the food lobbies, the huge multinationals that purvey all these foods are immensely powerful and until today I haven't even had a hearing,” Senator Imee Marcos told the BBC.

‘It starved to death before it ever saw the light of day.’