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Sat 5 Feb, 2005 05:56 pm
Hallo!
How to use the expression "clean cheat" in english? [I wonder if it is "clean cheat" or "clean chit".] I have heard this phrase many a time
Thanks
Hello bubu,
I've never heard this expression used in English before.
Do you mean "clean sheet?" Say you were going to design a new car. You could start with an existing design and modify it, or you could start with a clean sheet of paper and design a car as if one had never been designed before.
i'm pretty sure markr has it. you must mean clean sheet.
"clean sheet" as a metaphor certainly makes sense...but I've never heard that used as a popular expression either, like "clean slate" is
I think you mean 'clean sheet'. Usuall people start with a clean sheet.
This is an idiomatic English expression.
It means to start or think about something right from the beginning, with no old ideas. Like writing on a new sheet of paper.
Since "chit" can mean an IOU, perhaps a "clean chit" means not owing anything.
"Clean sheet" can also mean a fresh start with the mistakes of the past being ignored.
Police sergeants and schoolmasters and other authoritarian types maintain "rap sheets" on misbehaving individuals. Every so often the misbehaving individuals are offered "clean sheets"--new starts.
Isn't that usually called a clean slate?
markr--
I've heard both. Remember in the last 60 years, the traditional classrom blackboard has been replaced by a "greenboard" or a "whiteboard" and the slates for each individual student have been gone for more than a hundred years.
well maybe it should be "clean disk" then
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