in the first/second place
B2 used to separate and emphasize reasons or opinions:
I don't want to go yet - in the first place I'm not ready, and in the second place it's raining.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
First and firstly
- at first idiom
- begin
- debut
- first come, first served idiom
- firstly
- for starters idiom
- from the word go idiom
- inaugural
- initial
- initially
- introduction
- opener
- place
- prefatory
- primary
- proto-
- starter
- to begin with idiom
- ur-
- word
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