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What does turn over a new leaf mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) To engage in self-improvement; to begin a good habit or shed a bad habit.
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Quite a challenge to face as we turn over a new leaf and dive into a new year.
I had these, but now I'm going to turn over a new leaf and that's all there is.
So, as the new season begins, your favorite correspondent has decided to turn over a new leaf and institute some new policies.
What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?
I know your new years' resolutions were probably broken weeks ago, but there's always a chance to turn over a new leaf.
At the end of the second world war Europeans realised that it was time to turn over a new leaf.

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