turn over a new leaf
To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit.
Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising.
new
UK /njuː/ US /nju/
adj 5adv 2verb 2name 2
Definitions
adj
1
Recently made, or created.
This is a new scratch on my car! The band just released a new album.
The cookers cost £350 new but £150 secondhand.
2
Recently made, or created.
I can't see you for a while; the pain is still too new. Did you see the new King Lear at the theatre?
3
Additional; recently discovered.
We turned up some new evidence from the old files.
4
Current or later, as opposed to former.
My new car is much better than my previous one, even though it is older. We had been in our new house for five years by then.
5
Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously existing.
New Bond Street is an extension of Bond Street.
adv
1
Synonym of newly, especially in composition.
Near-synonym: recently
new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown hay, new-laid eggs
2
As new; from scratch.
They are scraping the site clean to build new.
verb
1
Synonym of new up.
2
To make new; to recreate; to renew.
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