English-Finnish translations for from scratch

• alusta alkaen
  Emme voi tehdä sitä, ellemme ole varautuneet selvittämään talousarviota koskevia peruskysymyksiä alusta alkaen ja sen jälkeen jatkamaan työtä eteenpäin. Well, we cannot do it if we are not prepared to look at the fundamental budgetary issues from scratch and then to work from there.
  Tästä siis seuraa, että meidän on samanaikaisesti joka tapauksessa alusta alkaen ryhdyttävä laivaston rakenneuudistukseen.If we conclude this agreement as it stands, there will be no economic benefit for the fishermen of Spain and Portugal, which means we will have to restructure the fleet from scratch.
• raaka-aineista
• tyhjästä
  Emme siis aloita aivan tyhjästä. So we are not starting from scratch.
  Emme joudu kuitenkaan aloittamaan tyhjästä, kaukana siitä. We are not starting from scratch, far from it.
  Emme kuitenkaan lähde tyhjästä. Anyway, we are not starting from scratch.

Definition of from scratch

• From the beginning; starting with no advantage or prior preparation
• From basic materials or raw ingredients

Examples

• 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.
• She said she wanted to build a new house from scratch.
• He was out of pancake mix so he had to make the batter from scratch.

Related words

• From's Gambit
• from the bottom of one's heart
• from John o' Groats to Land's End
• from the horse's mouth
• Bishop’s Frome
• straight from the horse's mouth
• there's more where that came from
• know one's ass from a hole in the ground
• straight from the horse’s mouth
• slip from one's hand