单词 | as a starter |
释义 | > as lemmasas (also for) a starter a. as (also for) a starter: = for starters at Phrases 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > to begin with to start with ——1838 as (also for) a starter1846 for a start1874 for starters1952 for (also as) openers1966 1846 Wisconsin Herald 18 July You..think that if you had five hundred dollars, just for a starter, you would go to work with it and build up a fortune in a hurry. 1862 Knickerbocker Jan. 108 Help you to make a collection? you bet you ! I'm ‘on it’, I am! Give you, ‘for a starter’, a set of Ophir ores. 1872 Lakeside Monthly Jan. 38 They then applied the turn lever, and, giving two or three hasty spins as a starter, darted to the south side. 1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant v. 64 All that he ever needed was a few hundred for a starter. 1947 Chicago Tribune 3 Sept. 6/3 As a starter, agents have begun a canvass of small independent food wholesalers. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 9 Nov. 7 He wired how many frogs' legs did they think they could handle. They told him ten thousand as a starter. 2001 S. E. Grace Canada & Idea of North 58 What does Haliburton understand as North? Well, for a starter, North is not the degenerate, effeminate South. 2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 19 My motives, do they matter to you? If so, as a starter I offer guilt. < as lemmas |
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