Initial Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A sure sign
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Begin at the beginning
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born under a bad sign
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• 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
• From day one
• From the beginning of time
• Germ of an idea
• Get off the ground
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get your retaliation in first
• Give me a sign
• Head first
• Honeymoon period
• 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)
• In the beginning was the word
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• 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 first base
• Me first
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• Of the first water
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Original Gangster Ice T song
• Original sin
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Safety first
• Seed money
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Sign of the times
• Sign off
• Sign on
• Sign on the dotted line
• Sign out
• Sign the pledge
• Sign up
• Tell tale sign
• The Esso sign means happy motoring (Esso advertising slogan)
• 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 Original Live Test-Pattern Girl (Nickname of Nanette Fabray)
• The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The beginning of the end
• 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 original and the best
• 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