平地起家
píng​dì​qǐ​jiā

to start from scratch

  • created sense approved 平地起家 · píng​dì​qǐ​jiā · to start from scratch — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    平地起家

    píng​dì​qǐ​jiā

    to start from scratch

    to start a business or build a life from nothing; to build one's fortune from the ground up

    平地 (literal) → 平地 · píng​dì · level ground 起家 (literal) → 起家 · qǐ​jiā · to build up

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense