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new lease on life
Idioms and Phrases
A fresh start; renewed vigor and good health, as in Since they bought his store Dad has had a new lease on life . This term with its allusion to a rental agreement dates from the early 1800s and originally referred only to recovery from illness. By the mid-1800s it was applied to any kind of fresh beginning.Example Sentences
But if Trumpism got a new lease on life from this war — new talking points, new enemies, new ways to rile up the base — we have to ask what the endgame is.
Extending that strategy to Adams has now provided the New York City mayor with a new lease on life as he’s running for reelection.
That trauma still haunts her - but her unexpected global fame has given her a new lease on life.
He gets a new lease on life when he’s tapped by a private investigator to go undercover at a San Francisco retirement home to dig into the theft of a missing heirloom.
Two weeks into her new lease on life, Swick said she heard about Hubbart and sat at home for a week, fearful that Hubbart was potentially moving to an adjacent property 300 feet away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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