to begin with

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   at first

2. Oxford20% of films

   used to introduce the first point you want to make

In the movies · 32

• Hell, you probably gave me the Darkhold to begin with...Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022
• And to begin with, it was quite easy.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet2020
• The Roman world, to begin with.Cleopatra1963
• To begin with, of course...Argo2012
• You were insufferable to begin with.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017
• who never even feared death to begin with.Donnie Darko2001
• Nothing was ever the same to begin with.Pollock2000
• They weren't that great to begin with.The Holiday2006

From the same entry

• charity begins at home

More idioms

• bless you
• make fun of
• thanks to
• later on
• out of the question
• over and over
• go too far
• sure thing
• a way of life
• at times
• more and more
• in advance