from the ground up

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.

Example Sentences

For a man who could rebuild a motorcycle from the ground up, it was a disarming gesture: soft, domestic, almost old-fashioned.

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Modern, minimal and modular, Reset Hotel is the first new hotel to be built from the ground up in the Joshua Tree area in 15 years.

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But no matter how annoying those liberals might be, it remains undoubtedly true that “cancel culture”—whatever that means—bubbled from the ground up, and was sharpened by the coalition’s allies in the media and elsewhere.

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"Cyprus is a nation with such a love of football and, in Pafos, we believed that we had an opportunity to build something from the ground up."

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“This was my first opportunity to develop something from the ground up,” Wright says.

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