From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha fresh starta fresh startAGAINwhen you start something again in a completely new and different way after being unsuccessfulI hope Jim and I can get back together and make a fresh start. →freshExamples from the Corpusa fresh start• Around six years ago, she departed for California to make a fresh start.• Every week is a fresh start.• It gives you a fresh start.• It was spring, and he was making a fresh start.• She decided to travel back to this country and make a fresh start.• The prisonerswelfare group Nacro, says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start.• What we need, it argues, is a fresh start.• Then make a fresh start on a more efficientbrand of government activism for the future.• Bankruptcyproceedingsfree you from overwhelmingdebts so that you can make a fresh start, subject to restrictions.