Phrase info Synonyms

like new

Speech parts

1. like new - Adjective

2. like new - Phrase

Meaning

Seemingly new; as good as new.
After a thorough shine, your shoes look like new.

As though new; as good as new.
Make your car run like new.

like new (not comparable)

Seemingly new; as good as new.
Our like-new refrigerator didn't last the year.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. Craig Raine

Maybe the universe doesn't approve of places like New York. Jack McDevitt

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it. Neville Marriner

Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction. Daniel Levitin

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, "There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it." Robert De Niro

A young woman, like new wine, bubbles. Romanian Proverb

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