daylight between

idiom

: distance or difference between (people or things)
They said there was no daylight between the two governments' positions.
The team has won five straight games to put some daylight between themselves and their nearest rivals.

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There is more than a trillion dollars’ worth of daylight between the House budget resolution and the resolution under consideration by the Senate. Tobias Burns, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025 So, for Republicans, there’s little daylight between immigration and wildfire, logic aside, and no shame in exploiting the blazes to further their immigration agenda. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 Fun fact: Parts of the northern U.S. are losing more than three hours of daylight between June 20 and the fall equinox, per NOAA's handy Solar Calculator. Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024 Driving the news: The Houston area will gain around 2 hours of daylight between today's spring equinox and the summer solstice on June 20, per NOAA's solar calculator. Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for daylight between

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“Daylight between.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/daylight%20between. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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