take it from the top

English

Verb

take it from the top (third-person singular simple present takes it from the top, present participle taking it from the top, simple past took it from the top, past participle taken it from the top)

1. To take it from scratch, to take it from the beginning.

See also

• da capo

Further reading

• “take it from the top”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “from the top” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “from the top”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.