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an early bath (British & Australian, informal)

if you take an early bath, you are forced to stop doing an activity sooner than you intended to. The spokesman took an early bath after a series of embarrassing and incorrect statements. And that's his second yellow card so it looks like an early bath for Taylor.

See also: bath

an early bird

someone who gets up early in the morning. Ellen's the early bird in this house, not me.

See also: bird

bright and early

very early in the morning. You're up bright and early.

See also: bright

The early bird catches the worm.

something that you say in order to tell someone that if they want to be successful they should do something immediately. If you see a job that interests you, apply as soon as possible. The early bird catches the worm.

See also: bird, catch, worm

it's early days (yet) (British & Australian)

something that you say which means that it is too soon to make a judgement about something. Both teams are near the bottom of the league, but it's early days yet.

See also: days, it's

like turkeys voting for (an early) Christmas (British & Australian, humorous)

if people are like turkeys voting for Christmas, they choose to accept a situation which will have very bad results for them. Teachers agreeing to even larger class sizes would be like turkeys voting for Christmas.

See also: like, turkey, vote

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at your earliest convenience

as soon as you can. Call me back at your earliest convenience.

See also: convenience

bright and early

very early in the morning. You'll have to be at the airport bright and early to make that flight.

See also: bright

early on

shortly after the beginning. He decided early on that this was the perfect school for him.

it's early days (yet)

it is too soon to make a judgment about something. It looks like we will earn a profit, but it's early days yet and we can't be sure.

See also: days, it's