Synonyms

from the ground up

Idioms

From the very beginning; also, completely, thoroughly. For example, We've had to learn a new system from the ground up, or The company changed all of the forms from the ground up. This expression alludes to the construction of a house, which begins with the foundation.

Example Sentences

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“Having built this category from the ground up it feels like extra pressure on us to keep it alive,” Bullock said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The build was completed as a full body-off-frame restoration — a process that separates the truck’s body from its chassis to rebuild each component from the ground up, with original components carefully sourced and preserved wherever possible.

From Los Angeles Times

Aguado explains that this approach allows researchers to construct the system from the ground up.

From Science Daily

"A lot of things have to be scrapped completely and rebuilt from the ground up," she tells the BBC.

From BBC

What if, rather than building homes on-site from the ground up, they were cranked out of factories, one unit after another, shipped to where they were needed and dropped into place?

From Los Angeles Times

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