make a fresh/new start
idiom
: to start a new life
Her divorce gave her an opportunity to make a fresh/new start.
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What better way to make a fresh start as things warm up than with a brand-new YSL lipstick?
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Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The story follows South Korean immigrants trying to make a new start as farmers in the American Midwest in the 1980s — a plan that puts husband Jacob (Steven Yeun) and wife Monica (Han Ye-ri) increasingly at odds with one another as the circumstances stack up against them.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
In retrospect, Ratzinger was manifestly the wrong man for the top job: too old, too retiring, too rigid, too sapped by past controversies to make a fresh start.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Set in Hawkins in 1959, ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ is an origin story to the Netflix series, and follows small town Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and new student Henry Creel who arrives on the scene when his family try to make a new start and escape the shadows of their past.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The story follows South Korean immigrants trying to make a new start as farmers in the American Midwest in the 1980s — a plan that puts husband Jacob (Steven Yeun) and wife Monica (Han Ye-ri) increasingly at odds with one another as the circumstances stack up against them.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
In retrospect, Ratzinger was manifestly the wrong man for the top job: too old, too retiring, too rigid, too sapped by past controversies to make a fresh start.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Set in Hawkins in 1959, ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ is an origin story to the Netflix series, and follows small town Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and new student Henry Creel who arrives on the scene when his family try to make a new start and escape the shadows of their past.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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