| 释义 |
(from) rags to richesUsed to describe a person’s rise from a state of extreme poverty to one of great wealth: it was the old rags-to-riches fantasy...- The Industrial Revolution had thrown up a new figure in the form of the self-made man: someone who had risen from rags to riches on the basis of sheer hard work and technical competence.
- His life is often described as a rags to riches story.
- Despite his resolve to rise from rags to riches, Jim's economic maneuvers - as he explains to Huck - have been dismal failures.
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