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from scratch

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*from scratch
Fig. [making something] by starting from the beginning with the basic ingredients. (*Typically: bake something ~; do something ~; make something ~; Start (something) ~.) We made the cake from scratch, using no prepared ingredients. I didn't have a ladder, so I made one from scratch.
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from scratch
if you do something from scratch, you start right at the beginning We lost all our work in the fire and had to start from scratch. George built a garage from scratch.
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from scratch
from nothing We decided to build a newspaper pretty much from scratch.
Usage notes: often used in the form start from scratch: Can we fix the current computer system, or would it be better to start from scratch?
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Built from Scratch tells the story of the one of the world's most successful businesses: Home Depot, the U.
The cost of building Cal State Channel Islands from scratch has been put at $120 million to $160 million.
Hispanics are more likely to cook from scratch than non-Hispanics; however, the importance of homemade cooking declines as Hispanics acculturate.
 
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