Wiktionary
place in the sun
n. 1 (&lit place in the sun English) 2 A favorable position. 3 recognition, fame.
Usage examples of "place in the sun".
Those who have pursued other paths to knowledge, those who have secretly harboured beliefs that science has scorned, could now have their place in the Sun.
This fear was suspended over every person throughout the entire history of mankind, and it was this fear that made people trample their neighbors, elbow aside the weak, trying to snatch a bigger piece of pie, to carve out their place in the sun.
But if a nephew or cousin or even brother of his donned the red boots, Niphone's kin would lose their place in the sun, with no way to get it back.