Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) a slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being entered in the log at the end of a watch 2 (context by extension English) a fresh start
WordNet
n. an opportunity to start over without prejudice [syn: fresh start, tabula rasa]
Wikipedia
Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that causes him to forget anything that happened to him the previous day, which makes it hard for him to know whom to trust, or if he even knows them at all. Valeria Golino, Michael Gambon, James Earl Jones, Bryan Cranston, and Kevin Pollak co-star.
Clean Slate may refer to:
- Clean Slate (1994 film), a film released by MGM in 1994 starring Dana Carvey and Valeria Golino
- "Clean Slate" (Kim Possible), Kim Possible episode
- Clean Slate Program, Stanford University research program which considers "Clean Slate" internet redesign
- Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate), a French film released in 1981
- clean slate approach, an approach to a problem where any problems arisen in the past are forgotten
Usage examples of "clean slate".
There are plenty of things on Lothar where it'd be better if you started all over again with a clean slate.
A Project Clean Slate agent might have been able to come up with that whole story.
Then later, when and if we marry, we can start with a clean slate.
And furthermore, once he had won his wings as a Para-Marine, that AWOL business would be forgotten (if he could believe Lieutenant Macklin), and he would have a clean slate.
Finally, in complete frustration, I decided to start from a clean slate, trying to think like Alan Turing.
There was no passion among them now, nor more than a vague comprehension of Roxborough's purpose in forming what he'd called the Society of the Tabula Rasa, or the Clean Slate.
You'd start with a clean slate, from your perspective, although you might well be killing off billions of people in the secondary plane's future.