English-French translations for from scratch

• à partir de zéro
• de zéro
  Nous ne partons pas de zéro dans ce domaine. We are not starting from scratch here.
  Nous ne partons donc pas de zéro. So we are not starting from scratch.
  Cependant, nous ne partons pas de zéro. Anyway, we are not starting from scratch.
• ab nihilo
• de toutes pièces
  C'est la première condition pour encourager une démocratie vivante, au lieu de créer de toutes pièces une démocratie artificielle. That is the first condition for encouraging a living democracy instead of creating an artificial democracy from scratch.
• ex nihilo

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