light at the end of the tunnel

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   something that shows you are nearly at the end of a long and difficult time or situation

   I mean, they tell you to look for the light at the end of the tunnel.

In the movies · 1

• I mean, they tell you to look for the light at the end of the tunnel.Slacker1990
• When there's gonna be light at the end of the tunnel.Up in the Air2009
• 'The desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force 'is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998

Learn it in full scenes

• Slacker1990
  • The Dreamer Explains His Reality Theory
  • A Man Dictates The Gambler
  • The Moon Landing Was a Cover-Up

From the same entry

• according to lights
• 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 dawned
• the light of life
• run a light

More idioms

• stab in the back
• on account of
• get nowhere
• be in the bag
• take by surprise
• be on the move
• at random
• if only
• in the nick of time
• keep a close eye on
• make ends meet
• nine to five