rags to riches

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Surface analysis, a change from wearing ragged clothing (because impoverished) to having a lot of money.

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rags to riches

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

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