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first and foremost

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first and foremost
Cliché first to be dealt with and most important. First and foremost, I think you should work harder on your biology. Have this in mind first and foremost: Keep smiling!
See also: and, first

first and foremost
more than anything else He remains first and foremost a businessman, not a politician. In order to be successful a film has to be, first and foremost, a good story.
See also: and, first


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Do you know whether the First and Foremost Phanfasm of Phantastico is at home or not?
Never had the love of the prisoner been more sincere than at the time at which we are now arrived, when in the contest between the black tulip and Rosa the tulip had had to yield to her the first and foremost place in Cornelius's heart.
And so, after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and remade a multitude of names out of his memory and fancy, he decided upon calling him Rocinante, a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world.
 
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