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: --
Could that be looked at in the cold light of day?
We shall have to look at the matter in the cold light of day and assess it.
Perhaps their remarks were made in the heat of the debate, and in the cold light of day they will regret them.
I think that, in the cold light of day, even he would accept that.
There, in the cold light of day, standards and ethics for the service concerned will have to be judged.
It should be reviewed in the cold light of day and a considered judgment should be reached on the evidence.
We need to assess the pros and cons in the cold light of day.
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.