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a clean slate

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a clean slate
if you are given a clean slate, you can start something again, and all of the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten The company's debts have been paid so that the new manager can start with a clean slate.
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``It's not like it's a clean slate where everything is clean, so you have to compete.
In his letter to Schwarzenegger, Burton wrote: "It is my intention to introduce legislation to repeal the workers' comp bills recently passed so that you can start with a clean slate as you send up your proposals.
 
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