clean slate
Speech parts
1. clean slate - Noun
2. clean slate - Phrase
Meaning
an opportunity to start over without prejudice
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Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity.
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.
“A clean slate and stories just waiting to be told.”
Ironically, a clean slate also seems to be what Chris Rock wants for his own career.