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idiom(from) rags to richesused about someone's progress to success, when they were poor at first and have become very rich:It is part of the American legend that any immigrant family can go from rags to riches.There is an element of rags to riches in the rise of the Sainsbury business from a single grocer's shop in 1869.rags-to-riches: His life is a rags-to-riches story that is as dramatic as a Hollywood movie.
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