1. if you are given a clean sheet, you can start something again, and all the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten.

I want us to forget all the arguing of the past, and start the New Year with a clean sheet.

2. if a football team or a goalkeeper (= the player who stands in the goal) has a clean sheet, they do not allow the other team to score any goals.

United kept a clean sheet in an away match for the first time this season.

• put two fingers up at
• put two fingers up at someone
• put two fingers up at something
• putty in hands
• putty in your hands
• put under the microscope
• put up a brave front
• put up a front
• put-up job
• put up or shut up
• put words in mouth
• put words in someone's mouth
• put words into mouth
• put words into someone's mouth
• put years on
• put years on someone
• put you in place
• put you in your place
• put your back into
• put your back into something
• put your best foot forward
• put your cards on the table
• put your feet up
• put your finger on
• put your finger on something