- 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
- What is the origin of the phrase This is why we cant have nice things?
While I believe that Poundstone was the first to bring this joke to national attention, there is some indication that it was a gentle family joke before that One piece of evidence comes from a memoir of the 1950s, published at about the same time Poundstone was beginning her standup career: “ Why don't you have nice things like Aunt Marion?”
- meaning - Use of whichever comes occurs first - English Language . . .
The sense of oddness may come from the expectation that there are multiple things expiring when you see whichever expires first Here are the dates: D1: 12 month [s] after your receipt of our confirmation letter D2: 10 month [s] from the first inspect date The sentence then becomes "The goods will be guaranteed until D1 or D2, whichever expires comes occurs first " There is only one guarantee
- 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
- Is there any rule of order for time, date, place, building, etc?
I would like to meet you at 5pm this Sunday in KFC on the first floor in USA Shopping center There are two things about this sentence It's overly complicated for me The order of time, date, place, etc doesn't look right I wonder if there is a rule of order when writing about time, date, place, etc
- grammar - For the first time - the first time - English Language . . .
But #2 means I won the first bet I placed yesterday (I may or may not have won bets before yesterday - that's unspecified) In general, "for the first time" implies "first time ever", whereas plain "the first time" usually implies the first of the contextually relevant instances times (in my example, yesterday's bets)
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