New Year's resolutionnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌnjuː ˌjɪəz ˌrez.əˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌnuː ˌjɪrz ˌrez.əˈluː.ʃən/also New Year resolutiona promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year:
"Have you made any New Year's resolutions?" "Yes, I'm going to eat more healthily and give up smoking."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & breaking promises & commitments
- betray
- broken
- commit
- cross my heart (and hope to die) idiom
- deliver
- fink
- fink out
- guarantee
- oath
- promise sb the earth/moon idiom
- promises, promises! idiom
- redeem
- resolution
- scout
- sworn
- vouch
- vouch for sth/sb
- warrant
- warranty
- welsh
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