(a) clean sheet

(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 a football team or a goalkeeper (= the player who stands in the goal) has a clean sheet, they do not allow the other team to score any goals.

United kept a clean sheet in an away match for the first time this season.


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