rags-to-riches in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Contemporary writers also turned away from writing rags-to-riches plots.
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She felt listeners' hearing her rags-to-riches story might inspire them to pursue their dreams.
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This should be an inspiring rags-to-riches story -- a morality tale about education leading to a better life.
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Many thought his was the ultimate come-down, the culmination of a rags-to-riches-to-rags storyline.
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It would only inspire hatred, because they base themselves on rags-to-riches in this very old-fashioned way.
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It's a tale of determination and dreams, a fable about capitalist greed, a rags-to-riches story that's occasionally political, romantic, and even a buddy film.
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To some, he was a charming conversationalist who was fond of a good joke and who enjoyed recounting tales of his rags-to-riches life.
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Think of the gold rush and you'll think of rags-to-riches stories about men who took a risk and made big money fast.
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Lyrically, it deals with an aspiring trumpet player's career, delivered in a rags-to-riches fashion.
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Though the story is essentially rags-to-riches-to rags it is a heart-warming story with a bitter-sweet ending and plenty of humour on the way.
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