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rags-to-riches

rags-to-riches is the alternative form of rags to riches.

Meaning of rags to riches

Noun

rags to riches

  1. (attributive) From poverty to exceptional wealth.
    • […] and finally [Oprah Winfrey] declared herself not only “a believer in the American dream of rags to riches” but living proof of its veracity.2016 [2008], Janice Peck, Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, Routledge, →ISBN, page IV
    Antonyms:
    riches to rags

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Questions about rags-to-riches

What is rags-to-riches the alternative form of?
Rags-to-riches is the alternative form of rags to riches.

Words near rags-to-riches in the dictionary

  1. rags off
  2. rags on
  3. rags out
  4. rags the puck
  5. rags to riches
  6. rags-to-riches
  7. Ragsdale
  8. Ragsdales
  9. ragseller
  10. ragsellers
  11. ragshag

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