What does from scratch mean?

idiom. Starting something from the very beginning, without using anything that was made or done before.

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Starting something from the very beginning, without using anything that was made or done before.

After moving to a new country, they had to build their life from scratch.

Starting something from the very beginning, without using anything that was made or done before.