clean slate
Definition of clean slate
: a person's record (as from a school or a job) that shows no evidence of any problems, broken rules, etc. : a clean record Everyone who comes to this school starts with a clean slate.
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: free from dirt or pollution
: free from contamination or disease
: free or relatively free from radioactivity
: so as to clean
: in a clean manner
: all the way : completely
: to make clean: such as
: to rid of dirt, impurities, or extraneous matter
: to rid of corruption
: an act of cleaning dirt especially from the surface of something
: a piece of construction material (such as laminated rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding
: a dense fine-grained metamorphic rock produced by the compression of various sediments (such as clay or shale) so as to develop a characteristic cleavage
: a tablet (as of slate) used for writing on
: to cover with slate or a slatelike substance
: to designate for a specified purpose or action : schedule
: to thrash or pummel severely
: to criticize or censure severely
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