from scratch
98
2.8
- idiom
:
desde cero
- When the software crashed, I had no choice but to build the application from scratch.
- start from scratch
- build from scratch
- create from scratch
So she built this entire leather cover from scratch, which blows my mind.
- So she built this entire leather cover from scratch, which blows my mind.
- So every kid gets a hot meal made from scratch each day.
- Let's start one from scratch and do it on the blockchain.
- I'm going to make champagne cupcakes from scratch and decorate them with some nerds.
- And so did you start Stripe and Stare up from scratch after the trademark situation?
- My mom made my entire Cinderella costume from scratch and I looked like Cinderella.
- So I've got I'm starting over from scratch with no real way to make any money.
- What if we were to start our company from scratch today?
- They're quote made from scratch, real food meals.
- And so I'm starting from scratch going into the church world.
Examples
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Frankly, I think we're better off just starting from scratch on this one.
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What if we were to start our company from scratch today?
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We wanted to start from scratch.
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I just wanted to start from scratch.
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And so I'm starting from scratch going into the church world.
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She said take all the time you need, start from scratch, and get it right.
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My life's goal is to design and make from scratch everything I touch in my life.
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We had to build the whole system from scratch in our refrigeration lab.
Academic text (2008) -
"Starting an educational services business from scratch would seem like plenty, but Lipper is a driven woman."
Academic text (2008) -
If one of them died, I'd have to start from scratch, inventing a new life.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
52
6.6
Right from the very start
24
3.7
To build something completely from the very beginning
1
9.9
Made from nothing without using other materials
Antonyms
How New
24
3.7
98
2.8
- Informal
52
6.6
- Informal
5
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'from' (indicating origin) with 'scratch' (a marked starting point), so its meaning 'from the very beginning' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional origin-based logic is common and learners who know both words at B1 level will readily infer the idiom's sense.
Etymology
From scratch may come from old games where people would scratch a line in the ground to show the start. To begin from that scratch meant to start at the first mark with nothing already done. That's why today from scratch means 'from the very beginning', without using anything already made.