Hello and welcome to The English We Speak,
where we explain phrases and expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.
I'm Feifei.
And I'm Phil.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Yes, it is very nearly a new year.
Have you thought of any resolutions, Phil?
Well, I always struggle to get the homework done for my language classes,
but I'm going to change that in the new year.
I'm going to make a fresh start.
Yes, good.
And that is the phrase we're going to learn in this programme.
A fresh start.
You can see the word fresh in there.
It gives the idea of something new and nothing bad has happened to it yet.
Yes.
So when we talk about a fresh start, we mean we can do something new.
that isn't affected too much by the past.
The start of a new year can offer people a fresh start,