Debut Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Blow off the stage
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
• Exit stage left
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• Fringe theatre

• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get your retaliation in first
• Head first
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Ladies first
• Last in first out
• Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
• Love at first sight
• Make an entrance
• Make first base
• Me first
• No introduction necessary
• Of the first water
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Safety first
• Set the stage
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Stage door Johnny
• Star of stage and screen
• Take centre stage
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The stage is set
• To cast the first stone
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who blinked first?
• Women and children first
• World's first
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You heard it here first
• You only get one chance to make a first impression