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from scratch
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Princeton's WordNet
from scratchadverb
from the beginning, especially without relying on resources or other advantages
"he baked the torte from scratch"; "she built her business up from scratch"
Wiktionary
from scratchadverb
From the beginning; starting with no advantage or prior preparation.
from scratchadverb
From basic materials or raw ingredients.
Etymology: From the scratch drawn in the ground serving as the starting line of a foot race. A runner “starting from scratch” received no handicap, but started at the beginning of the course.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of from scratch in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of from scratch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of from scratch in a Sentence
Listen, you've got one shot here, you've got an opportunity -- you've gotta scratch, claw, fight, bite, kick through everything you can to make this happen, it's a back to the wall philosophy and when your back is to the wall every moment in life you have one place to go and that's forward.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
There’s no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and West Coast role, and the way that it is being administered, and the work it is doing, and we need to probably think about starting from scratch.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
It's that idea of looking at our product and taking pride in creating something from scratch. We may not sell 100 million t-shirts, but we can say we're to create one thing and make it all here and be part of the process.
Translations for from scratch
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- van die begin afAfrikaans
- von Grund auf, von neuemGerman
- desde ceroSpanish
- از اولPersian
- raaka-aineista, tyhjästä, alusta alkaenFinnish
- de zéro, à partir de zéroFrench
- elölrőlHungarian
- da capoItalian
- 最初から, 手作り, ゼロからJapanese
- ex nihiloLatin
- [[vanaf]] [[het]] [[begin]], [[helemaal]] [[opnieuw]], [[vanaf]] [[nul]]Dutch
- fra bunnen avNorwegian
- od początku, od zera, od nowaPolish
- do nada, do princípio, do zeroPortuguese
- с нуля, с самого начала, с чистого листаRussian
- từ đầuVietnamese
- 从头开始Chinese
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