rags

While rags to riches stories are rare, poor to upper middle class stories are extremely common, especially in tech.

Only a small subset of industries are currently seeing rags-to-riches stories and if one is ideological, the options may dwindle further.

The local coffee shop might be OK stocking some Marxist rags or hard core Libertarian texts or whatever the owner likes.

External PR is a rags-to-riches story, the truth however involves mainly being middle/upper class.

On the contrary, it is inversly correlated with appearance - the dreaded-and-tattooed hippues in rags marketed for tourists are the most primitive.

What's the fascination with these articles about how people went from rags to riches?

Come, old broomstick, you are needed, Take these rags and wrap them round you!

Good for some stewardess from China taking her family from rags to riches.

They were probably all burned in bonfires or used as cleaning rags.

So, as with the Economist, you have a lot of rags who're talking the talk about conservation, provided it doesn't cost them a penny.

But they don't get sinecures to write clickbait garbage for biased rags.

They ought to cover that unsightly box with some oily rags.

They wrote several posts that were published in various magazines and "{trade rags" for their industry.