F
Idioms beginning with "F"
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Contents of F:
[first string] (1) {n.}, {informal}
1. The best group of players on a team; first team; A team.
Dick loved basketball and practiced hard until he was put on the first string.
2. The best group of workers.
* /Tom learned his trade so well that […]
[first thing off the bat] {adv. phr.}
Immediately; at once.
He called home from Paris first thing off the bat as he stepped off the plane.
[first things first]
Other things must wait until the most important and necessary things are done.
Study your lessons before you go out to play. First things first.
[first-class] (1) {adj.}
1. Of the highest class or best kind; excellent; first-rate.
Jane did a first-class job of repairing the coat.
It was a first-class TV program.
Compare: [TOP-NOTCH].
2. Of the best or most expensive class of […]
[first-class] (2) {adv.}
With the best material; in the best or most expensive way.
When Mr. Van Smith goes anywhere he always travels first-class.
"How did you send the package?" "First-class."
[first-run] {adj. phr.}
Shown for the first time; new.
The local theater showed only first-run movies.
[first-string] {adj.}, {informal}
1. On the starting team or A team.
He was the first-string quarterback.
2. Of the best quality; foremost.
He was the least expensive of the city's first-string lawyers.
[firsthand] {adj.}
Fresh; genuine; from the original source.
John says he got the information firsthand from the president himself.
[fish]
See:
[COLD FISH],
[KETTLE OF FISH],
[NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL],
[NOT THE ONLY FISH IN THE SEA],
[OTHER FISH TO FRY].