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rags-to-riches

 
pronunciation:
raegz tu rI chihz
part of speech: adjective
definition: used to describe a story in which someone starts out in life very poor and later becomes rich.
The book is a rags-to-riches story in which a poor orphan boy eventually finds his wealthy uncle and is taken back into the family.