first and foremost

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   more than anything else

   I'm a businessman, first and foremost. I want no further conflict.

   It is a form of child abuse, first and foremost.

In the movies · 6

• Well, first and foremost, Brie, um…Don't Look Up2021
• I'm a businessman, first and foremost. I want no further conflict.The Godfather Part III1990
• It is a form of child abuse, first and foremost.Mommy Dead and Dearest2017
• And we are' first and foremost, gentlemen.Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• ...the Yule Ball is, first and foremost...Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005
• What we need, first and foremost...Nashville1975
• - The Yule Ball is, first and foremost, a dance.Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts2022
• - But a writer first and foremost? - Yeah, a real writer.The World According to Garp1982

Learn it in full scenes

• Don't Look Up2021
  • Kate Discovers the Comet
  • The Astronomers Call Dr. Oglethorpe
  • Kate and Mindy Wait Seven Hours

From the same entry

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

More idioms

• together with
• make a move
• make way
• up and running
• a night out
• bite your tongue
• inside out
• get your breath
• look bad
• bite head off
• frighten the life out of
• have no time for