English to Filipino Meaning of rags to riches - basahan-to-kayamanan


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Definitions of rags to riches in English
Noun(1) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood
Examples of rags to riches in English
(1) He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.(2) His father still works as a ragpicker , pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.(3) The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.(4) More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers , swill-gatherers, bootblacks.(5) Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
(1) ragpicker ::
taong namimili ng lumang damit
(2) rag ::
basahan
(3) picker ::
tagapitas
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