Place In The Sun Meaning

Example : Used other than as an idiom: see place,‎ in the sun.A favorable position.1908, Laurie Magnus, English literature in the nineteenth century: an essay in criticism, page 32:  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 pageant1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada‎, page 311:  And beyond the Christian orbit, other religious groups, at first Jews but then others as well, began to claim a place in the sun.Recognition, fame.1972, Ben Barr Lindsey, The companionate marriage‎, page 72:  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.