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Definition clean-skin in British English

clean-skin noun

noun
1

someone who is not tainted by their previous experience or actions

Example

This may have been enough for her colleagues to suppose that the clean-skin Owen Smith - only in parliament since 2010 and unscathed by the experience of being a government backbencher let alone a minister - would be the better choice.

Definition clean-skin in British English