clean slate

洁净的石板清洁石板清洁的石板清石板

clean slate 的定义

  1. A new start; especially to make a new start by clearing the record. This phrase comes from the use of chalk and slates in classrooms in the past. By wiping the slate clean, a student could remove any evidence of a mistake.

clean slate 近义词

n. 名词 noun

new start

更多clean slate例句

  1. With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
  2. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  3. Millions of dollars in renovation later the building is gorgeous—Clean, well-kept, organized.
  4. “Clean as a whistle,” says a senior investigator involved in the case.
  5. Clean-shaven and balding, Saleem is in his forties and walks with a limp.
  6. He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
  7. The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.
  8. Slate slabs were originally tried for sleepers on the Birmingham and London line.
  9. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
  10. A groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.