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first thing

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first thing (in the morning)
before anything else is done in the morning. Please call me first thing in the morning. I can't help you now. I'll do that first thing.
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(the) first thing (in the morning)
before doing anything else The first thing tomorrow, you'll have to cancel our reservations. White had a habit of playing his trumpet first thing in the morning, which really irritated his neighbors.
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The first thing I noticed was a range of mountains about two thousand feet high, the shapes of which were most capricious.
To have nothing in common is evidently impossible, for society itself is one species of [1261a] community; and the first thing necessary thereunto is a common place of habitation, namely the city, which must be one, and this every citizen must have a share in.
The Pumpkinhead had brought a broom, which was the first thing he saw.
 
 
 
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