Start from scratch....

[Pamela]

Where'd we get the expression

"to start from scratch"?



Pamela

 

[satanic goatslayer]

When your face gets scratched off, it's a long and arduous process to construct your face on paper and have that work duplicated on your facial region. Plastic surgery can be tedious.

Starting from (a) scratch.

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

What about ---

"calm your horses"?

I have never liked that saying

 

[the People's Champ]

I say hold your horses...

 

[BigBazooka]

What about: "Shut the fuck up, bitch!"? What's the meaning behind that?

 

[toga22]

What about: "Shut the fuck up, bitch!"? What's the meaning behind that?

 

[bouncer]

START FROM SCRATCH---Begin with nothing; without advantage.---"We have lost it all, I guess we will have to start from scratch."---Literally a line scratched on the ground, the starting line. Horses or people racing with a handicap start ahead of the line, ones without handicap start behind the line; start from scratch. James Joyce (1922). Ulysses. "A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny."

Bouncer

Taken from;

http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/7608/index.html

 

[Pamela]

START FROM SCRATCH---Begin with nothing; without advantage.---"We have lost it all, I guess we will have to start from scratch."---Literally a line scratched on the ground, the starting line. Horses or people racing with a handicap start ahead of the line, ones without handicap start behind the line; start from scratch. James Joyce (1922). Ulysses. "A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny."

Bouncer

Taken from;

http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/7608/index.html

YEAH!!! BOUNCER!! THAT'S GREAT!!

From the old Greeks. They started their footraces from a line scratched in the sand,
and literature thereafter recorded numerous starts from scratches..

A BIG KISS FOR THAT!!