according to lights

Meaning

1. according to sb's / sth's lights

   according to the standards which sb sets for himself or herself

From the same entry

• be out like a light
• be in light
• bring to light
• cast light on
• come to light
• in a good, bad, favourable, light
• in the light of
• the lights are on but nobody's home
• light at the end of the tunnel
• light dawned
• the light of life
• run a light