start over with a clean slate
start over with a clean slate
To start (something) again with a fresh beginning, especially unencumbered by mistakes or regrets from the past. After that fiasco in Texas, I'm looking forward to starting over with a clean slate in Oregon. Things got so screwed up with the project that we had to scrap it about halfway through and start over again with a clean slate.
See also: clean, over, slate, start
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- start (off) with a clean slate
- start with a clean slate
- a clean sheet
- a clean sheet/slate
- clean sheet
- clean slate
- free bird
- if you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything
- to err is human
- divine