- Which is the correct idiom: First things first or First things first?
The latter is generally considered correct From Oxford Dictionaries Online: first things first Used to assert that important matters should be dealt with before other things Comparing Google hits as a very rough measure of usage gives "first things first": 1,660,000 "first thing's first": 199,000 So, the apostrophised version is an order of magnitude less common, but not negligible
- Are there any specific words for the first events and first things
In particular, "first fruits" referring to the first produce of a harvest, and to festivals that celebrate them And many first things are harbingers of what is to come This refers not to their being the first specifically, but of the first grey hairs, first frost of winter, etc being harbingers of age, impending winter etc
- First, Second, Third, and Finally - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is it grammatically correct to sequence paragraphs using First, Second, Third, and Finally? If not, is there a good word that replaces Finally? Starting a paragraph with Final doesn't sound corre
- expressions - Whats a phrase for when: to do A, you first need to B . . .
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- Is there a single word for the first thing to consider is?
A look at the answers given before that shows that both senses of 'first' were assumed by different responders It's difficult to judge which sense is prevailing in most of the Google returns for a "the first thing to consider is" search, but there seem to be ten times as many hits as there are for "the second thing to consider is"
- What is it called when two things both have to happen first?
0 We use the cart before the horse metaphor when things are being done in the wrong order (sometimes, when attention is being focused on a minor detail rather than on the primary objective subject) When the problem is that two different things both have to happen first, we call it a chicken and egg situation problem
- How to use The first thing I did was? [closed]
It can be there; deletion is optional -- the first thing I did was to shutdown the laptop and go and the first thing I did was to shutdown the laptop and to go are both grammatical, and both mean the same thing In a cleft sentence with Active do, one uses infinitives
- Equivalent of former and latter for more than 2 items
Former and latter are valid only when there are two choices If I have a list of more than two items, is there an elegant way to say the first one or the last one?
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