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noun

a newly appointed person eager to make changes

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

His boss, who he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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How to use new broom in a sentence

The blood rushed to my head, but I only answered, “A new broom sweeps clean.”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And the boy waited with the new broom in his hand, expecting every moment to see the door opened from the outside.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
New brooms are proverbial for thorough work, and in this Committee work Phineas was as yet a new broom.
Phineas Finn|Anthony Trollope
The fellows who began trifling with the new broom were down in his office the next morning.
The Modern Railroad|Edward Hungerford

We were hardly across the line when there was a broom at our truck––a new broom that I know I, for one, never saw before.
The Seiners|James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
And yet I suppose every vessel that sailed in the race that day had a new broom hid away somewhere below––to be handy if needed.
The Seiners|James B. (James Brendan) Connolly