new person

feel like a new person

To feel completely refreshed and in good health and spirits, especially after an exhausting or debilitating experience. After he had some time to recover from the surgery, he felt like a new person. I'll feel like a new person once I have a shower and a good night's sleep.
See also: feel, like, new, person
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

new person

see under feel like oneself.
See also: new, person
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • feel like a new man/woman
  • feel like a new person
  • feel like new
  • new man
  • new woman
  • a new man
  • in good spirits
  • run (one) off (one's) feet
  • rush (one) off (one's) feet
  • be a box of birds
References in classic literature
Just as the particle of water in frost, definitely and unalterably, takes the special form of the crystal of snow, so each new person that arrived at the springs was at once placed in his special place.
"I mean that a new person seems speaking through you," said he.
One can begin so many things with a new person!-- even begin to be a better man.
She had scarcely been carried up to her room, when a new person arrived to whom it was also necessary to break the news.
"I feel as if you were a new person, now that you have got a new name."
All the motionless men had the ghostly sensation of the presence of some new person; and Merton was scarcely surprised when he looked up and saw the pale face of Armstrong's daughter over Father Brown's shoulder.
I always shrank from the sight of a new person, and all the more when it was a person whose mental life was likely to weary my reluctant insight with worldly ignorant trivialities.
After visiting the National Gallery, or Hertford House, or hearing Brahms or Beethoven at the Bechstein Hall, she would come back to find a new person awaiting her, in whose soul were imbedded some grains of the invaluable substance which she still called reality, and still believed that she could find.
A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep.
A mountain ramble, a new style of face, a new person, may put the key into our hands.
Rachel followed, for it seemed possible that each new person might remove the mystery which burdened her.
Summary: New Delhi (India), May 27 (ANI): Two days after his resignation offer, Congress President Rahul Gandhi is said to be sticking to his decision and is keen that a new person could be chosen for the post to guide it in the challenging times ahead.
"Pellegrini does not think a new person will be able to run the department in the next few weeks, including current pressures, as reported by the Sme daily.It is not clear who will replace Kazimir, who is leaving upon his own request.
I'd say we definitely need a new person at the helm.
We are also almost to the examination and we cannot bring in a new person at this moment since the integrity of such a person must be very high," said Prof Magoha.