| Subject | English | Russian |
| idiom. | build from scratch | построить с нуля (Helmut built an incredibly successful commercial enterprise from scratch and was awarded the Order of Canada. ART Vancouver) |
| idiom. | build from scratch | построить на пустом месте (And since we're perfectionists, we build each and every grill from scratch – and we laser cut our grates in-house for heavy-duty reliability. • Renovations are more likely to discover unforeseen problems that were not detected before and require un-budgeted "change orders" to fix before proceeding. In other words, the cheaper renovation model could cost more money and time than the total "build from scratch". (burnabynow.com) ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | build something from scratch | строить с нуля (Olga Okuneva) |
| automat. | built-from-scratch | изготовленный по эскизу (заказчика) |
| automat. | built-from-scratch machine | станок, изготовленный по эскизу (заказчика) |