to start fresh
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3.6
- phrasal verb
- /stɑrt frɛʃ/
- Informal
:
empezar de cero
- She moved to a new city to start fresh and leave her past behind.
- start fresh in the morning
- start fresh tomorrow
- start fresh with a new
And so I'm equally grateful to have left and I've been able to start fresh in Los Angeles.
- And so I'm equally grateful to have left and I've been able to start fresh in Los Angeles.
- And that's the heart of day one, as you're always starting fresh.
- And then usually the next spring I'll clean them completely out and start fresh.
- You're out there trying to recreate and, and, and start fresh.
- It was a chance to just wash away the energy of that year and really start fresh and know that that that that's possible.
- I'm wondering if it would be easier to RIP up all the grass and start fresh or if we should just cut around and just keep the grass that we have.
- And then you're like, we're at the halfway point and I started fresh.
- The the melting pot was you come to America and you get to start fresh.
- Empire, big nation, small empire, old nation, new right nation, can start fresh, has no historical baggage, all of that.
- So I think I'm just going to do like walks, cardio, AB workouts at home and then start fresh on.
Examples
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A new home could be an opportunity to start fresh.
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This is a chance for people to start fresh somewhere without the violence and the madness.
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We're going to just start fresh and it's going to be fun.
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I thought maybe we could start fresh.
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We need to start fresh, somewhere far away, somewhere warm.
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And we'll start fresh tomorrow.
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Tomorrow we start fresh with a wedding.
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Can we start fresh today?
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Of course, if you want to start fresh, you can choose to bring nothing along.
Blog text (30) -
I am now in Europe and looking to move to Germany and start fresh again.
Blog text (31)
Synonyms
283
2.5
To do something again from the start after a mistake or problem
25
3.5
To begin living in a very different place or way after a big change
9
4.2
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
8
5.0
To start fresh by forgetting past mistakes and problems
Do something new and not worry about past mistakes
Antonyms
How New
- Informal
8
5.0
- Informal
26
3.6
283
2.5
461
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to begin again without carrying over previous problems' is a direct, literal combination of 'start' (to begin) and 'fresh' (new/not previously used). This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern follows standard English adjective + verb semantics and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Start fresh paints a simple picture: you wipe a whiteboard or open a new page so you start with something fresh and clean. So it means 'to begin again' without bringing old problems.