rags to riches

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

En-au-rags to riches.ogg

rags to riches rags-to-riches

By surface analysis, a change from wearing ragged clothing (due to being impoverished) to obtaining a lot of money.

riches to rags

self-made Horatio Alger nepo baby go from zero to hero nepotism

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