‘Going back to the drawing board’: Idioms for change

Here are some idioms and expressions to talk about changes or the intent to change:

• Blow away the cobwebs

To get rid of feelings of tiredness

• Out with the old, in with the new

Accepting new ideas

• Shake things up

Make significant/positive changes

• Give (something) a new lease of life

Revive something

• Go back to the drawing board

Start again with new ideas/plans

• Start with a clean sheet

Start again with new ideas

• Make a fresh start / make a clean break

Start something again

• To turn over a new leaf

To discard old habits and adopt new, positive ones