Primal Phrases

Phrases

• A World first
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• Cut someone down in their prime
• 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
• 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)

• In your prime
• 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
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• 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
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Prime cut
• Prime of life
• Prime time
• Safety first
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• 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 Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
• 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