clean slate Hello, Can anybody let me know the meaning of 'clean slate' here in the sentence below? "All you have to do is ask for forgiveness and you get a clean slate." Thank you!

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Dan

17 окт. 2019 г., 14:40

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Totally agree with John.

17 октября 2019 г.

It means that your errors, sins, mistakes, or crimes will be forgiven and not held against you. A “slate” is a kind of surface that you can write on. The idea in the “clean slate” idiom is that all of a person’s errors, sins, mistakes, or crimes get written down on a slate, but that the slate then gets erased so that it is as if the errors, sins, etc. never happened.

17 октября 2019 г.

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