new broom

noun

1. a newly appointed person eager to make changes

Example Sentences

Barclays analyst Warren Ackerman commented that the CEO’s new broom should create a more reactive organization with leaner costs, while Bernstein’s analyst, Callum Elliott, observed that “sentiment has flipped quite dramatically in a positive direction.”

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A new broom does not have to sweep clean!

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And so it begins again - a new manager hunt leading to a new broom in the dressing room.

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For Wales, perhaps it was to be expected that a new broom would sweep clean.

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In response, Ms Abbott tweeted that Sir Mark was supposed to have been the “new broom” at the Met, but instead of offering a “new beginning” he had continued to support a “lack of police accountability”.

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