First meaning in English
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Definition
(Give me the money) first (then we'll talk): (Give me the money) before, primarily, initially (then we'll talk)
(my) first (job): (my) earliest, initial, oldest (job)
at first: before anything else, at the beginning, at the start
first things first: before anything else, before everything, what needs to be addressed primarily
Examples
- "Brian : (The first one)"
- "I'd like to schedule our first meeting for tomorrow morning, first thing."
- "Krazy Gideon : First crazy question to our first candidate: Edward Moon."
- "Bruno trained his interpretation skills on basic animals at first."
- "I'm joined in the cockpit by my co-pilot in training, Randy Williams. Randy happens to be blind, but we're happy to have him with us on his first flight."
- "I'll be the first to admit that violence doesn't solve anything."
- "" were Philip's first words."
- "Now, the first thing we're going to do is..."
- "Philip : Ahem, ahem. Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you so much for coming to my first exhibition, I hope you're enjoying the fine art on display as well as the nachos and fruit punch I've generously provided."
- "Do not stop for tea first."
- "You guys are part of the team. Now for your first mission..."
- "The first mate has spotted a blip on the radar three knots ahead."
- "Brian : I have no idea, it's my first day!"
- "I apologize for being in America during my first week as European president."
- "To say thank you for all your hard work lately, and to celebrate our moderately successful first quarter sales, I'm pleased to announce that the senior staff of the Delavigne Corporation will be taking a team-building trip this weekend!"
- "I first started getting suspicious in the helicopter."
- "Bruno saw his first dolphin at the age of 13, while surfing in the Pacific."
- "Let's welcome our first, and thankfully penultimate, that means second to last, entry: "Boy Joy Machine?"
- "Narrator : Bruno never forgot this remarkable first encounter, and spent his years at University studying animal behavior and linguistics."
- "I will read the sentence first, to let you know how it SHOULD be pronounced: Is that horse reading a book or ironing some clothes, mmkay?"
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