a clean sheet/slate
informalDefinition
› the situation in which people decide to forget your past behaviour, usually because it was not good: You were very lazy last term, but we'll start again with a clean sheet this term.Beginnings and starts
(Definition of a clean sheet/slate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- advent noun
- beginning noun
- commencement noun
- dawn noun
- initiation noun (START)
- institution noun (START)
- introduction noun (PUT INTO USE)
- jumping-off point noun
- kick-off noun
- onset noun
- opening noun (BEGINNING)
- salvo noun
- seed noun (BEGINNING)
- start noun (BEGINNING)
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