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Fresh start   /frɛʃ stɑrt/   Listen
Fresh start

noun
1.
An opportunity to start over without prejudice.  Synonyms: clean slate, tabula rasa.






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"Fresh start" Quotes from Famous Books



... life has seen him exhorting such backsliders, and denouncing their misconduct and imprudence with the tears streaming down his cheeks. And he would generally conclude by opening his purse, and giving them the help which they needed "to make a fresh start in the world." ...
— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... who were too poor to make a fresh start elsewhere and too tough for Fenris to kill, refused evacuation, took over all the equipment and installations the Fenris Company had abandoned, and tried to make a living out of the planet. At least, ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

... compared with the idea or rather I presume certainty of the sun some day cooling and we all freezing. To think of the progress of millions of years, with every continent swarming with good and enlightened men, all ending in this, and with probably no fresh start until this our planetary system has been again converted into red-hot gas. Sic transit gloria mundi, with ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... his tale. He was going to make a fresh start; he was going to spend the rest of his life in some manner worthy of him. He hadn't read much of the book he had taken out of the library, for in his present way of spending his life there didn't seem to be any very good time for reading, ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton

... first time the sages of the madrono grove had heard Dick's song, and they were loud in applause. Hancock took it for a fresh start in the discussion, and was beginning to elaborate a biologic Bergsonian definition of love, when he was stopped by Terrence, who had noticed the pain that swept ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London


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