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Also, dawn upon . Become evident or understood, as in It finally dawned on him that he was expected to call them , or Around noon it dawned upon me that I had never eaten breakfast . This expression transfers the beginning of daylight to the beginning of a thought process. Harriet Beecher Stowe had it in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852): “The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her.” [Mid-1800s]

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