empezar de cero
1. to start from scratch, to make a fresh start
to begin again without keeping what came before
- Después del fracaso, decidió empezar de cero.After the failure, he decided to start from scratch.
- Nos mudamos y tuvimos que empezar de cero.We moved and had to start from scratch.
- A veces es bueno empezar de cero.Sometimes it is good to make a fresh start.