from the ground up

Idioms  

1. From the very beginning; also, completely, thoroughly. For example, We've had to learn a new system from the ground up, or The company changed all of the forms from the ground up. This expression alludes to the construction of a house, which begins with the foundation.

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from the ground up

Instead of searching nature for a substance with the needed properties, the LSU team chose to engineer one from the ground up.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Designing a new EV assembly line from the ground up will allow Ford to marry a fresh concept for a vehicle with a solid cost structure, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Keaton spent a staggering eight years building the home, which effectively saw her rebuilding it from the ground up, a process that she documented in her 2017 book.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

"The layouts and the proportions and views really came directly from the architecture rather than from how we generally would start planning a building from the ground up."

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

He’d read somewhere that lightning struck up, not down—moved from the ground up.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen