In The First Place

Definition: In The First Place

In The First Place

Adverb

1. Before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?".

2. Of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: In The First Place

Beginning

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Crosswords: In The First Place

See, I told you she wasn't right for you, in the first place. (The North Avenue Irregulars; writing credit: Albert Fay Hill; Don Tait)

You know how you make decisions that lead to other decisions but you don't remember why you made those decisions in the first place. (Better Luck Tomorrow; writing credit: Ernesto Foronda; Justin Lin)

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place. (Harry Anderson's Hello Sucker; writing credit: Harry Anderson)

It's just that you've been so expensive to buy in the first place. (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz)

Look, Garber, I suggested that in the first place and you shot me down. (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone)

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• Whatever You Do, Stop Going to Church! It Wasn't God's Idea in the First Place (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• In the First Place [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference)

He that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of government, ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government. (Second Treatise of Government)

All property, rights and interests of German nationals within the territory of any Allied or Associated Power and the net proceeds of their sale, liquidation or other dealing therewith may be charged by that Allied or Associated Power in the first place with payment of amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of that Allied or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested, in German territory, or debts owing to them by German nationals, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed by the German Government or by any German authorities since July 31, 1914, and before that Allied or Associated Power entered into the war. (reference)

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In the first place none of the signers gave his address.

When we speak of beauty in the second sense of the term our judgment is influenced in the first place by the art itself and by the form of that art.

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Health

Understanding drug abuse also helps in understanding how to prevent use in the first place. (references)

The milk is graded and tested to make sure that the milk is clean enough to pasteurize in the first place. (references)

These behaviors may prolong existing insomnia, and they can also be responsible for causing the sleeping problem in the first place. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

The extravagant use of credit markets by the government is, in turn, crowding out private credit, demand for which is feeble in the first place due to slow industrial activity and greater scrutiny of loans by banks. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

në radhë të parë (first, imprimis, in the first instance). (various references)

Chinese 

軋 (crush), 首先 (first), �" (to crush, to keep under, to press, to push down). (various references)

Czech

za prvé (firstly), v první řadì (imprimis, ringside), přednì (anteriorly). (various references)

Finnish

lähinnä (mainly, nearest, next), ensisijaisesti (primarily), ensinnäkin (first, firstly, for one thing, originally, to begin with), ensinnä (first, firstly, for one thing, originally, to begin with), ensin (at first, first), ensiksikin (first and foremost, for one thing, to begin with), ensi sijassa (first and foremost). (various references)

French

premièrement. (various references)

German

an erster stelle (firstly, uppermost). (various references)

Hebrew 

בראש ובראשו� �" (first and foremost, first of all, primarily). (various references)

Hungarian

mindenekelőtt (above all, chief, first of all, in the first instance, preeminently, pre-eminently), legelsősorban (first and foremost), elsősorban (eminently, first of all, first thing, in the first instance, primarily, principally), elõször (at first, at first hand, first, firstly), először is (first of all, first thing, in the first instance, to begin with, to start with). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抑 (to begin with), 先ず以て (first of all). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そもそも (to begin with), まずもって (first of all). (various references)

Manx

'sy chied ynnyd (firstly), 'sy chied cheayrt. (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ethay irstfay aceplay

Romanian

în primul rând (chiefly, essentially, first, first and foremost, firstly, in the first flight, in the first instance, originally, principally, to begin with, to start with). (various references)

Russian 

во-первых (firstly, imprimis, to begin with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prvenstveno (chiefly, place: in the first place), na prvom mestu (flight: in the first flight, imprimis, place: in the first place). (various references)

Spanish

en primer lugar (chiefly, first, first of all, firstly). (various references)

Swedish

första plats. (various references)

primo, primoque, primum. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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