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Oct 14, 2026 24 min

Why Do We Say "Turn Over a New Leaf"?

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While it is commonly assumed that the idiom turn over a new leaf relates to the foliage of trees and autumn rebirth, the expression actually originates from literature and book pages. Dating back to the fourteenth century, Geoffrey Chaucer famously used the phrase in The Canterbury Tales to advise readers to flip the page if they disliked a particular story. Over the centuries, this practice of turning to a fresh page evolved into a metaphor for personal reinvention, symbolizing an individual abandoning past mistakes to begin a better chapter in life. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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