new lease
Extended tenancy agreement
A new lease is literally a fresh rental agreement, but the phrase appears almost exclusively in the idiom a new lease on life (British: new lease of life).
This means a renewed sense of energy, purpose, or vitality after a period of difficulty: The surgery gave her a new lease on life.
The metaphor treats life as rented property that can be extended.
- fresh startOpportunity to restart unburdened
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- fresh perspectiveChanged way of seeing
- revivalReturn after decline
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
second wind · turning point · starting over · tenant · agreement · contract · landlord · rental agreement · real estate · property · signing · signed sealed delivered · extension · renegotiate · apartment · term · breathing room · opportunity
- renewalreinvigoration, restart, reboot, fresh start, regeneration
- "life" phrasesway of life, fact of life, walk of life, breath of life, life of the party
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
new leaseeviction
Forced departure from rental
eviction notice · lease termination · termination notice · dispossession · expulsion
new leasedeath sentence
Judicial order of execution
death knell · beginning of the end · last gasp · hopelessness · dead end
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