Usually means: From poverty to significant wealth.
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  1. rags to riches: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rags-to-riches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. rags-to-riches, rags to riches: Wiktionary
  4. rags-to-riches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  5. Rags to Riches (TV series), Rags to Riches (game), Rags to Riches (horse), Rags to Riches (race horse), Rags to Riches (song), Rags to Riches (video game), Rags to Riches, Rags-to-riches, Rags to riches (disambiguation), Rags to riches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Rags to Riches, Rags-to-riches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Rags to Riches, Rags-to-riches: Legal dictionary

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  1. Rags to Riches, Rags-to-riches: Encyclopedia

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  1. Rags to Riches, Rags-to-riches: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rags to riches)

▸ noun:  (chiefly attributive) From poverty to exceptional wealth.

Similar:
rags-to-riches, opulence, success, superaffluence, big shot, bonanza, superwealth, parvenu, glory days, glow-up, more...

Opposite:
riches to rags, downfall, decline, impoverishment

Phrases:
from rags to riches, more...

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Similar:
rags-to-riches, opulence, success, superaffluence, big shot, bonanza, superwealth, parvenu, glory days, glow-up, more...

Opposite:
riches to rags, downfall, decline, impoverishment

Phrases:
from rags to riches, more...



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