Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “start from (the) scratch” and it is a phrase meaning “to start doing something again from the very beginning, especially without using/relying on anything that previously exists”.
Example Sentence: “It was a lone man’s struggle for justice. It would not have been possible had my mother not stood by me all through my testing times. It was not just my suffering in prison for 31 long years…my mother and other family members also suffered equally. I have had several setbacks in these years. On many occasions, freedom seemed to be at the doorstep but the case would get dismissed. But I was never bogged down by failures. I gathered courage and started from the scratch again,” Mr. Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the Raji Gandhi assassination case who was set at liberty by the Supreme Court, told The Hindu.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article I was never bogged down by failures, says Perarivalan and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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