from the start

Translations
с самого начала
Someone knew it was a bad idea from the start.
Кто-то знал, что это была плохая идея с самого начала.
Definitions
A phrase indicating the beginning of a process or activity, suggesting that something should be done anew or from the very beginning.
Words
from

preposition
с
the

article or possessive pronoun
самого
start

noun
начала