from rags to richesRICHbecoming very rich after starting your life very poor 从赤贫到巨富,从一贫如洗到家财万贯 He likes to tell people of his rise from rags to riches. 他喜欢给人讲他白手起家的故事。
→ rags-to-richesfrom rags to riches• I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations.• These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches.
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