What is "first thing"

Usage examples of "first thing".

The first thing was to smear her hair until all the blond had been dyed away, then brush it back smooth, a hundred times, until it had lost its luster and shine.

The first thing she checked was the small wooden box containing her collection of Yamani porcelain lucky cats.

Kel knew that because the first thing she did was pluck one from her head and draw it lightly over the edge.

The first thing she noticed that was not part of her unhappy night was the prickle of tiny claws on her hand.

There was no set time for the exercise: he might order her to do it first thing in the morning or even after dark, to report on the animals she heard.

Say, better buy a bike first thing tomorrow before the run on them starts.

The few available stationary steam engines worked twenty-four hour shifts in those early days, and the first thing they were given to do was the running of lathes and stompers and planers and millers working on turning out more stationary steam engines, of all sizes.

The first thing he noticed was that he was perspiring, and then he heard a hissing growing louder under his feet, and saw a lot of little bubblesvery little bubbles they wererushing upward like a fan through the water outside.

The two men talked a few minutes longer, and then Ben left, promising to return first thing tomorrow morning to see his granddaughter.

The first thing he had to do was make the description even more inaccurate.

It was the first thing he had ever learned to spell, long before he had mastered the difference between upper- and lowercase letters.

In her estimation, the first thing needed was to quiet the crowd so the king and his advisors could get their attention.