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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
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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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