a new lease on life

noun phrase

US

: a chance to continue living or to become successful or popular again

This medicine gives patients a new lease on life.

After the movie was made, the book got a new lease on life.

Examples of a new lease on life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But it's now got a new lease on life, thanks to SONY Pictures and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. — Mandalit Del Barco, NPR, 31 July 2026

Equipped with three robotic arms for grabbing the observatory some 350 kilometers above Earth, LINK is meant to rendezvous with and capture Swift and then use xenon-gas thrusters to raise the observatory’s orbit, giving it a new lease on life. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

The two respond to the upheaval in different ways, one embracing a new lease on life, the other feeling unmoored and disoriented. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

The war effectively gave the Iranian government a new lease on life, said Dina Esfandiary, Middle East geoeconomics lead at Bloomberg Economics. — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

Rhymes for a new lease on life

• afterlife
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