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borrowed sunshine, eight minutes old and a quarter-million miles late, dimmed enough to forgive everyone
means The pale, silvery light cast by the moon at night — or, used as a verb, working a second job, typically secretly and after hours.
from A plain old English compound, joining 'moon' (Old English 'mōna,' a cousin of German 'Mond' and Latin 'mēnsis,' month — the moon was the ancient world's calendar) with 'light' (Old English 'lēoht'). The verb sense — taking on extra work in the dark — is far younger, an Americanism that grew from the older 'moonlighting,' which once meant nighttime mischief and illicit deeds carried out under cover of that forgiving glow.
- recycled light
- It's just sunlight bouncing off lunar rock
- color blind
- Too dim for your eye's color cells
- weak reflector
- Moon reflects only 12 percent of sunlight
- second hand
- Light takes 1.3 seconds from moon to you
- named work
- Working a side job after dark
moonlight sonata — beethoven's piano sonata no. 14 in c-sharp minor, composed 1801
moonlight mile — the rolling stones song from exile on main st., 1972