From Scratch (music group)
WordNet
adverb
(1) From the beginning
"He baked the torte from scratch"
WiktionaryText
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.
Adverb
- From the beginning; starting with no advantage or prior preparation; starting from raw ingredients.
- She was out of pancake mix so she had to make the batter from scratch.
- There were so many errors in the program that the programmer decided to rewrite it from scratch.
- When the writer finished writing his book, it was stolen and now he has to rewrite it from scratch.
- He had no money and no rich friends, so he had to build his business from scratch.
Quotations
- 2002, The New Yorker
- He sat there Friday night and built an entire model ship from scratch.
- 1980, Cosmos, Carl Sagan
- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.