day in the sun

day in the sun (plural days in the sun)

1. A time of glory or ascendancy.
   • 1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 210:

     The American Party enjoyed a brief day in the sun: in 1854 proponents elected seventy-five members of the House of Representatives and in Massachusetts garnered 376 of 378 seats in the state legislature.

• fifteen minutes of fame
• finest hour
• heyday
• moment in the sun
• place in the sun