0 If you think about something in the cold light of day, you think about it clearly and calmly, without the emotions you had at the time it happened, and you often feel sorry or ashamed about it:
He says that when he came to look at it in the cold light of day, he realised that it did something else.
Perhaps he should reflect on what he said when he reads his speech in the cold light of day.
I suggest that people read that debate in the cold light of day and see it as a kind of xenophobes' convention.
If ever there was a speech that did not stand examination in the cold light of day, it was that one.
I realised this looking at it in the cold light of day, which is not the time of day at which it was drafted.
I will look at his words with some interest in the cold light of day tomorrow.
I should like to read in the cold light of day what my noble friend has said before taking this much further.
But the reality, viewed dispassionately in the cold light of day, is that we do that on the sufferance of the government of the day.
