clean slate
KLEEN SLAYT
kliːn sleɪtListen
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a fresh start with no record of past failures, mistakes, or debts; the opportunity to begin again without the burden of previous errors; derived from the use of slate writing boards in schools and shops that could be wiped clean with a damp cloth to erase what had been written, allowing the board to be used again; in environmental contexts sometimes used to describe restoration projects that return a degraded ecosystem to a baseline state, removing accumulated contamination to allow natural recovery to proceed
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