from the ground up

Meaning: (idiomatic)From thebeginning; starting with thebasics,foundation, orfundamentals.2014, Maxwell Grant,The Pooltex Tangle:A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroadingfrom the ground up.

Examples:

EN: And it felt as if there were... something electric running from the ground up through me.
ES: Y se sentía como si hubiera... Algo eléctrico corriendo desde el suelo a través de mí.
EN: In the college I went to they taught the automobile business from the ground up.
ES: Ahí me enseñaron el negocio del automóvil desde cero.
EN: We learned our trade from the ground up.
ES: Se empezaba el oficio por abajo.
EN: What I'm sorry about is that I'm such a heel from the ground up.
ES: Pero lo que siempre tendré que estar lamentando es ser tan impulsivo.
EN: Starting from the ground up.
ES: - Qué interesante. - Renovar instalaciones y mobiliario.
EN: I'm rebuilding my exhibition from the ground up.
ES: Estoy reconstruyendo mi exposición desde cero.
EN: Alan, you know the public relations field from the ground up.
ES: Alan, conoces el campo de las relaciones públicas desde abajo.
EN: I'm also sorry to see a decent, useful business that Clark Baker and I built from the ground up, taken over to serve the interests of well-heeled lobbyists like this Fred Fletcher.
ES: También lamento ver un negocio decente y útil que Clark Baker y yo construimos desde cero, construido para servir a los intereses de grupos de presión adinerados como es el caso de Fred Fletcher.
EN: A thousand of them working from the ground up like the egyptian slaves on the pyramids, like the lilliputians with gulliver.
ES: Debió haberlo visto. Una imágen impresionante, comandante. Unos mil de ellos, trabajando desde el piso hacia arriba.
EN: We're gonna have to rewrite it from the ground up, but we'll fix it.
ES: Sé que tendremos que reescribirla entera, pero la arreglaremos.
EN: Men to learn the mercantile business, from the ground up. Oh you mean I start from the first floor?
ES: ¿El empleo es en planta baja?
EN: We're gonna be starting from the ground up...
ES: Empecemos por el principio.
EN: Now, you used to have to train your own men from the ground up.
ES: Se acostumbraba a sacar a esos hombres de los bajos fondos.
EN: # Sure, you've hit the bottom, but, remember, you'll be building from the ground up # Down, down, down, down
ES: De seguro has tocado fondo, pero recuerda que construirás desde el suelo.
EN: We will start from the ground up.
ES: , empezaremos desde el suelo hacia arriba.

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