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wipe the slate cleanForget past disagreements or faults and make a fresh start: an amnesty for political offenders which would wipe the slate clean and bury the past...- It is this ability to wipe the slate clean, to forget history and all its barriers and prejudices, which is behind the attraction of new towns.
- Well, we at the Olympics have decided to forget all that, wipe the slate clean and put them to an impartial test.
- I wanted to start afresh, to wipe the slate clean and forget about the endless mother-daughter feud, and finally let go of Ellum.
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