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