a clean sheet

  • 1clean sheet — When someone has a clean sheet, they have got no criminal record or problems affecting their reputation. In football and other sports, a goalkeeper has a clean sheet when let no goals in …

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  • 2clean sheet — noun 1. A record with no blemishes 2. A situation in which no goals are conceded (sport) • • • Main Entry: ↑clean …

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  • 3Clean sheet — A clean sheet is a football term, meaning a game in which the team referred to have not conceded any goals. The main purpose of goalkeepers and defenders is to keep a clean sheet.Example: Team A beats Team B 3 0, so Team A are said to have kept a …

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  • 4Clean sheet review — Within Business Process Management or Business Process Improvement, a clean sheet review reviews the business requirements of the as is organization and reinvents business processes to meet those business requirements. This review works free of… …

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  • 5clean sheet —    When someone has a clean sheet, they have got no criminal record or problems affecting their reputation. In football and other sports, a goalkeeper has a clean sheet when let no goals in.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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  • 6(a) clean sheet — 1. if you are given a clean sheet, you can start something again, and all the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten. I want us to forget all the arguing of the past, and start the New Year with a clean sheet. 2. if… …

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  • 7(a) clean sheet — a clean ˈsheet/ˈslate idiom a record of your work or behaviour that does not show any mistakes or bad things that you have done • No government operates with a completely clean sheet. • They kept a clean sheet in the match (= no goals were scored …

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  • 8a clean sheet — ► a clean sheet (or slate) an absence of existing restraints or commitments. Main Entry: ↑clean …

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  • 9a clean sheet — British mainly journalism a situation in football in which the other team has not been able to score any goals against you Liverpool kept a clean sheet …

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  • 10clean sheet — blank slate, clean record, new start …

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