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a clean break

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a clean break

if you make a clean break from someone or something, you leave them quickly and completely, and are not involved with them at all in the future (often + with ) Sometimes we need to make a clean break with the past. (often + from ) The Japanese are planning a clean break from the old television technologies.

See also: break, clean