Wiktionary
n. 1 An opportunity to live longer than was expected, due to some kind of reprieve. 2 Figuratively, an opportunity to an improved quality of life, due to some change in circumstances.
Usage examples of "new lease on life".
And so it came about that just as the electric light was killing the kerosene lamp, and it looked as though petroleum would become a drug on the market, the coming of gasoline-powered motorcars gave petroleum a new lease on life.
Something to give them hope for a better world, perhaps, a tenuous new lease on life.
That tide of food, water and rest that flowed through my weakened system, bringing me a new lease on life, also brought me the strength to see how desperate my situation was.
Florida would be swamped, and Castro would get a new lease on life.
They took a new lease on life when they marched out with the Home Guard and it seems to me that they’.
Then again, anyone who has been given a new lease on life would look well, don't you think?
If all goes well here, then Falling Angel has a new lease on life, and the younger people will have their chance to run things.
And so, flushed with a success and a new lease on life, Mandelbaum returned to resume his honourable career.
He guessed that I'd asked for him to do this job and it seemed to have given him a new lease on life.
And Mariil had seemed to thrive on helping, as if she too was getting a new lease on life.
Saint-Just actually rubbed his hands, looking like a man who'd just received a new lease on life .
It's going to have a new lease on life, but the gasoline car is going out the way wooden battleships did when the Monitor and the Merrimac called it a draw.
They had come after her because she would give them a new lease on life.