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first thing



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Idioms and Phrases

Before anything else; without delay. For example, Tom was supposed to call him first thing in the morning . [Late 1500s] Also see under first and foremost ; first off .
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“Parking is the first thing you see when you are coming to a concert or a sporting event, and getting out of there is the last thing you remember. So we are working really hard to make sure both of those things are great experiences.”

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She was boiling water to drink while campaigning in Arviat, she said, and described being unable to rely on calling voters as she canvasses because a phone plan is the first thing they sacrifice to afford food.

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“That’s the first thing he said to me, he said I get to play with the GOAT.”

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We didn’t want the first thing people heard to be the opening track on that album, with the “Hellooooo, baby” — that could have been David Lee Roth doing that.

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That’s why it was the first thing to come out.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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