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Good point, Branshe.
What imprecise speakers like Noel Coward mean when they say "in the sun" is "into the sun" with the "to" implied. This is nonsense unless they include the rays and effects of sun as parts of its corporeal body.
Everyone can walk beneath the real sun.
No one I know can walk into the sun.
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