From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishin a new/different/bad etc lightin a new/different/bad etc lightUNDERSTANDif someone or something is seen or shown in a particular light, people can see that particular part of their character I suddenly saw my father in a new light. This incident will put the company in a very bad light. → light
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in a new/different/bad etc light• So let us fantasise, and see industry and agriculture in a new light.• They perch too far away in bad light.• He found there a country whose characteristics cast the philosophy of birth control in a new light.• I've seen him at a distance, I've seen him in bad light.• It makes you think about those sullen high schoolers in a different light, see their lives along a time line.• But, like the National Health Service, education could be seen in a different light.• I think we both saw young Mr Venn in new lights, and they were neither favorable nor unfavorable, just new.• They literally saw the whole world in a new light. 