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new brooms sweep clean

new brooms sweep clean is the alternative form of a new broom sweeps clean.

Meaning of a new broom sweeps clean

Proverb

a new broom sweeps clean

  1. (figuratively) New management will often make radical changes.

Questions about new brooms sweep clean

What is new brooms sweep clean the alternative form of?
New brooms sweep clean is the alternative form of a new broom sweeps clean.

Words near new brooms sweep clean in the dictionary

  1. New Britain boobooks
  2. New Britain thicketbird
  3. New Brompton
  4. new broom
  5. new brooms
  6. new brooms sweep clean
  7. New Brunswick
  8. New Brunswicker
  9. New Brunswickers
  10. New Buckenham
  11. new bug

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