new broom

noun

1. a newly appointed person eager to make changes

Example Sentences

The blood rushed to my head, but I only answered, “A new broom sweeps clean.”

From The Daily Beast

And the boy waited with the new broom in his hand, expecting every moment to see the door opened from the outside.

From Project Gutenberg

New brooms are proverbial for thorough work, and in this Committee work Phineas was as yet a new broom.

From Project Gutenberg

The fellows who began trifling with the new broom were down in his office the next morning.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg