| English | Russian |
| from scratch | самостоятельно (Baking cookies "from scratch" means combining flour, eggs, sugar, etc. to make the cookies (instead of buying pre-made cookies or frozen cookie dough) VLZ_58) |
| scratch from time to time | почёсывать |
| scratch slightly or from time to time | почёсывать |
| start from scratch | начинать с самых азов (Andrey Truhachev) |
| start from scratch | начать с самых азов (Andrey Truhachev) |
| start over from scratch | полностью переделывать ("Starting over from scratch" means doing something again from the beginning. You can use this phrase if you did some work but now you have to do it over again because you lost it or because there was a problem with the first version. VLZ_58) |