first thing

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first thing

adverb

not comparable Early in the morning. I'll meet you first thing at the station.
not comparable Straight away, very soon. Some of 'em said that when a boy had been away from home a couple of years he ought to want to see his folks the first thing.

noun first things

in the negative The basic idea of how to do something. I would help you, but I don't know the first thing about gardening.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing. I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big cle

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@misc{first_thing_2026,
  title = {first thing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/first%20thing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}