a clean sheet

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   a record of your work or behaviour that does not show any mistakes or bad things that you have done

   It's not often you get the opportunity to start over with a clean slate.

   You've been given a chance to start over, with a clean slate.

In the movies · 4

• You've been given a chance to start over, with a clean slate.Alita: Battle Angel2019
• Start over. A clean slate.The Way Way Back2013
• It's not often you get the opportunity to start over with a clean slate.The Peanuts Movie2015
• or clean water clean sheets food shelterTropic Thunder2008
• Clean sheets, I think.Michael Collins1996
• Something with clean sheets and soft pillows and room service?Saving Private Ryan1998
• Well, no offense, but I kinda have a thing about clean sheets.Barbarian2022
• so the house is a little dusty, but there's clean sheets on the bed.Nashville1975

Learn it in full scenes

• The Way Way Back2013
  • Trent Rates Duncan a Three
  • Betty Welcomes the New Neighbors
  • Dinner at Trent's Beach House

From the same entry

• as clean as a whistle
• a clean bill of health
• a clean break
• make a clean breast of
• make a clean sweep
• keep your nose clean
• wipe the slate clean
• clean house
• clean up your act
• clean down
• clean off
• clean out