place in the sun

plural places in the sun

1. figurativelyA favorable position, characterized by comfort, success, wealth or general well-being.

   And beyond the Christian orbit, other religious groups, at first Jews but then others as well, began to claim a place in the sun.

   1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 311

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   that all conscious or seeming-conscious life is worthy of a place in the sun; that the hodman at his plough, the daisy in the field, and the lover with his lass, are alike a part of Nature's pageant

   1908, Laurie Magnus, English literature in the nineteenth century: an essay in criticism, page 32

2. figurativelyFame or recognition.

   And I'm just waiting now, for my place in the sun / And I'm just waiting now, for peace to come

   2019, “Hollywood”, in Ghosteen, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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   Jealousy is simply another way of demanding one's place in the sun – or under the domestic spotlight – a place in the center of the stage, as an exclusive object of consideration and attention.

   1972, Ben Barr Lindsey with Wainwright Evans, The companionate marriage, page 72

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see place, sun.