break daylight
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break daylight verb phrase [with stress on both day and light] To dawn, become light in the early morning.
1937 Hall Coll (Smokemont NC) [By the] time we got the tree cut down, it was day, just breaking daylight. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) We just stood there till it went to breaking daylight and got to snowing. Ibid. (Indian Creek NC) When it begin to break daylight till she could see to walk, she took her two little kids and went on in home.