new\ lease\ on\ life

new\ lease\ on\ life
n. phr.
A new chance to live; an improved manner of living.

After his illness and his retirement, living in Hawaii was a new lease on life.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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