| 单词 | from rags to riches |
| 释义 | from rags to richesFrom being poor to being wealthy, especially through one's own efforts. For example, The invention catapulted the scientist from rags to riches. Horatio Alger (1834–1899) popularized this theme in some 130 best-selling novels, in which the hero, through hard work and thrift, pulled himself out of poverty to wealth and happiness. Words nearby from rags to richesfrom hand to mouth, from head to toe, Fromm, from Missouri, I'm, from pillar to post, from rags to riches, from scratch, from soup to nuts, from the bottom of one's heart, from the cradle to the grave, from the ground up The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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