wipe someone's slate clean

wipe someone's slate clean
wipe someone's slate clean & wipe the slate clean
Fig. to get rid of or erase someone's (bad) record. (As if erasing information recorded on a slate.) •

I'd like to wipe my slate clean and start all over again.

Bob did badly in high school, but he wiped his slate clean and did a good job in college.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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