from scratch

from scratch
*from scratch
Fig. [making something] by starting from the beginning with the basic ingredients. (*Typically: bake something \from scratch; do something \from scratch; make something \from scratch; start (something) \from scratch.) •

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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{adv. phr.}, {informal} With no help from anything done before; from the beginning; from nothing. * /Dick built a radio from scratch./ * /In sewing class, Mary already knew how to sew a little, but Jane had to start from scratch./ Compare: FROM THE GROUND UP.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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