Polyglot Dictionary

clean slate

/kliːn sleɪt/

noun B2
N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. empezar de cero

    • He wanted a clean slate after the divorce.

      Quería empezar de cero después del divorcio.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

start from scratch

clean slate and start from scratch are close synonyms, both meaning to begin again with nothing carried over, largely interchangeable.

Práctica

1 ¿Qué significa clean slate?

2 Completa el espacio en blanco: He wanted a ___ slate after the divorce.

3 ¿Qué gráfico de características corresponde a clean slate?

noun

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