come first

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be considered more important than anything else

   My men come first of all, George, and those men know it too.

In the movies · 14

• With me, it is the duty that comes first.The Pink Panther Strikes Again1976
• My men come first of all, George, and those men know it too.Paths of Glory1957
• Family comes first.Auto Focus2002
• I thought that business would come first.A History of Violence2005
• She's got to come first.The Devil's Advocate1997
• At Kaslan, the customers come first.Child's Play2019
• It's first come, first served. Ain't no other way of doing it.Where the Crawdads Sing2022
• Palsy comes first,Shutter Island2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Paths of Glory1957
  • Broulard Pitches the Anthill Offensive
  • Broulard Visits Dax at the Front
  • Mireau Orders Dax to Take the Anthill
• Auto Focus2002
  • Lenny Pitches Bob a Sitcom
  • Anne Confronts Bob About the Magazines
  • Bob Meets the VTR Salesman

From the same entry

• there's a first time for everything
• at first
• first and foremost
• first and last
• first come, first served
• first of all
• first off
• first up
• put first
• feet first
• head first
• safety first

More idioms

• have it your own way
• any moment
• come close
• in the circumstances
• in turn
• hit it off
• play with fire
• on top of the world
• to herself
• at risk
• in action
• take personally