Wiktionary
first and last
n. (context idiomatic English) A person's combined given name and surname.
WordNet
first and last
adv. taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist" [syn: above all]
Wikipedia
First and Last
First and Last or The First and the Last may refer to:
- The First and the Last, a play by John Galsworthy
- The First and Last, an album by New Race
- Skynyrd's First and... Last, an album by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- The First and the Last, a memoir by Adolf Galland
Usage examples of "first and last".
Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.
My large experience (as Reader and Visitor, under not less, first and last, than fourteen beloved clerical friends) informed me that this was another case for preparation by books.