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Meanings of wipe the slate in English

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Usage of wipe the slate in English
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They can wipe the slate clean and never look at it again.
With Edged Tools
2
Why, one shipment from these Stoddard cattle will almost wipe the slate.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
3
I think it's the board trying to wipe the slate clean.
Reuters
4
But Hoffman knew that didn't wipe the slate clean, and it never would.
Aspho Fields
5
The tour was a chance to wipe the slate clean.
News.com.au
6
It is time to do what they did in 1916, and wipe the slate clean.
The Irish Times
7
Now, old man, I want you to wipe the slate clear of these ten years.
Parrot & Co.
8
Tarumi Taxi needs to raise about 100 million yen by August to wipe the slate clean.
Reuters
9
Phaedra agreed to wipe the slate clean with Kenya and Porsha, pretty much changing the subject.
Ebony
10
Some things can make everything else all right, just wipe the slate clean, don't you think?
Empty mile
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They can wipe the slate and write again.
Resurrection
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Banderas said he had tried to wipe the slate clean in his eighth collaboration with Almodovar.
Reuters
13
Finding Harry Sandler might wipe the slate clean.
The Wolf’s Hour
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They duly promise to wipe the slate clean and "rub out the Gove era".
The Guardian
15
By God, I wipe the slate clean now!
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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After facing a backlash, he decided to wipe the slate clean, deleting years of social media postings.
News.com.au
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