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The basic idea of how to do something. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.

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Source Word

first thing

Noun

The basic idea of how to do something. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.

Japanese Meaning

物事の進め方や方法論の基本的な考え方・原則 / 根本的なアイデアまたは基礎となる概念

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The first thing to understand about chess strategy is controlling the center.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

チェスの戦略で理解すべき最も基本的な考えは、中央を支配することです。

Sense（1）

The basic idea of how to do something.

I would help you, but I don't know the first thing about gardening.

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Sense（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, thing.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

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first things

（ plural ）

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