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Meaning of first thing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The basic idea of how to do something.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.

Equivalents

日本語 いの一番

Examples

“I would help⟳ you, but I don't know⟳ the first thing about gardening.”
“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 clear space like⟳ a lawn.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

first things first first time first touch first truth first unit first violin

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