English Dictionary

blank canvas

noun

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

She stared at the blank canvas, unsure of what to paint.

意味（1）

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view.

After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his dreams than a cracked blank canvas; […]