blank slate

American  

noun

1. tabula rasa.

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Example Sentences

You return to the grocery store — not with a blank slate — but with a little lived-in wisdom tucked into your pocket.

From Salon

Buyers will start with a blank slate — a basic truck without power windows or even paint — and can then customize it however they like.

From Los Angeles Times

But it is also a person who becomes a repository for the dreams and aspirations of countless unknown other people, anonymous audiences who can transform the object of all that attention into something of a blank slate.

From Los Angeles Times

While his campaign has generated national attention, he is still a blank slate for much of America.

From BBC

Maps fused politics and geography as never before during the Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I. It was the closest that modern statesmen have come to having a blank slate to fill in with nations.

From The Wall Street Journal