Origin: scratch = 'slight skin tear produced by a sharp thing' from 1580s; meaning of 'mark or slight furrow in metal, etc.' from 1660s; American English slang sense of 'money' is from 1914; many figurative senses are from sporting use for 'line or mark drawn as a starting place', attested from 1778; meaning of 'nothing' (as in from scratch) is attested from 1918, as generalized from specific 19c sporting sense of 'starting point of a competitor who receives no odds in a handicap match'; scratch-pad is attested from 1883

Übersetzung:

von der Pike auf lernen

Gegenteil(e)

to start somewhere in the middle

Synonym(e):

to start learning right from the beginning