a new broom sweeps clean
New management will often make radical changes.
broom
/bɹuːm/
noun 5name 5verb 4intj 1
Collocations
5(noun.)
ADJ
witch's | stiff
VERB + BROOM
sweep sth with, use
BROOM + NOUN
cupboard | handle
Definitions
noun
1
A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)
2
An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
3
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
4
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
[…] and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn […]
5
Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.
verb
1
To sweep with a broom.
[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]
It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.
2
To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
3
To get rid of someone, like firing an employee or breaking up with a girlfriend, to sweep another out of one's life.
April 2002 Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn, speaking to his son Harry, in the film "Spider-Man" A word to the "not-so-wise" about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast.
let the employee leave on his own, or the boss must broom him. If you hire, or inherit, able people, and you groom them, you won't have to broom them. Groom, broom, and watch your company zoom.
verb
1
Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners
New management imposes radical changes, but those with prior experience have more knowledge.
It is said that a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners – this does not apply to Mbombela’s social scene.
come out of the broom closet
To publicly reveal that one is a Wiccan or some other type of neopagan.
Second, despite constitutional guarantees of religions freedom and practice, and despite the rhetoric of tolerance with which religion in American society is cloaked, "coming out o
a new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners
Alternative form of a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows all the corners
Alternative form of a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Example Bank
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Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)
Wiktionary02
At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
Wiktionary03
[…] and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn […]
Wiktionary04
[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to bre
Wiktionary05
It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and
Wiktionary06
After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming. I broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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In some senses, broom is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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