"clean break" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "He decided to make a clean break with his employer.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "I'm ready for a clean break with my ex-girlfriend.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], pages 4–5",
          "text": "How bitter it is to be slowly separated from great friends! Far better make a clean break and remain in solitude—the natural climate for man.",
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        "The complete termination of a relationship, or exit from a situation."
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        "(idiomatic) The complete termination of a relationship, or exit from a situation."
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "一刀兩斷"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yīdāoliǎngduàn",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "一刀两断"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "脫離"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tuōlí",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "脱离"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "斷交"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "duànjiāo",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "断交"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "panna välit poikki"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
          "word": "cortar por lo sano"
        }
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  "word": "clean break"
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          "text": "He decided to make a clean break with his employer.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "I'm ready for a clean break with my ex-girlfriend.",
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        },
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          "text": "How bitter it is to be slowly separated from great friends! Far better make a clean break and remain in solitude—the natural climate for man.",
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        "The complete termination of a relationship, or exit from a situation."
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        "(idiomatic) The complete termination of a relationship, or exit from a situation."
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "一刀兩斷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yīdāoliǎngduàn",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "一刀两断"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "脫離"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tuōlí",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "脱离"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "斷交"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duànjiāo",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "断交"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "panna välit poikki"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "initiate a complete termination of a relationship",
      "word": "cortar por lo sano"
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  "word": "clean break"
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