Make A Clean Break (From/With Someone Or Something) explanation, meaning, origin - The Biggest Idioms Dictionary

Make a clean break (from/with someone or something) In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "make a clean break (from/with someone or something)", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

Julia Huong

2022-03-08 04:03

Meaning of Make a clean break (from/with someone or something)

Make a clean break (from/with someone or something) informal verb phrase

To withdraw completely and permanently from a relationship, circumstance, or attachment.

After all the pain John caused, I decided to make a clean break from him and moved to a new city.

I have done the wrong things before. Now, I just want to make a clean break with the past and start again.

My husband promised to make a clean break with smoking, but he eventually didn't keep his promise.

get rid of somebody/something

To discard, remove, eliminate, throw something away or become free from something or someone

wash one off

To clean someone using water and soap

whip one off

1. To get rid of something quickly and hastily

2. To create something rapidly

1. To officially allow somebody to leave a place

2. To remove someone from their job

3. To shoot bullet(s) from a gun

write out

1. To write something on paper in a way that is neat, clear and detailed

2. To make a character no longer exist in a regular radio or television programme

Grammar and Usage of Make a clean break (from/with someone or something)

The verb "make" should be conjugated according to its tense.