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| start from scratch (financial-engineer); start business from scratch (Ангелина Morozoff); start from nothing (Anglophile); back to the drawing board (Taras); start with a blank slate (Second language learners are also viewed as starting not with a blank state but are already in possession of a unique human ability: the ability to use language. Cat_Nat); start afresh (Andrey Truhachev); start over (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
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| undertake a fresh exercise (Majon) | |||
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| come in on the ground floor | |||
| начать с нуля: 9 phrases in 5 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 2 |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 1 |
| Idiomatic | 2 |
| Makarov | 3 |