of the first order Idioma

ducks in order

"organized, planned; each person knows his job" I have to get my ducks in order before the sale on Tuesday.

in order

to make it possible, to help it happen In order to win, we have to work as a team.

in order to

for the purpose of We have decided to close down the school for the summer in order to do some major repairs.

just what the doctor ordered

exactly what is needed or wanted Having the extra day off from work was just what the doctor ordered and he was able to get his many errands finished.

out of order

not operating, broken The stamp machine is out of order. I think it's broken.

pecking order

from strongest to weakest, line of authority The first thing to learn about a company is the pecking order.

to order

according to directions given in an order in the way something is made or size wanted etc. He had three suits made to order when he visited Hong Kong last year.

bang out of order

totally unacceptable

border on

be next to；come close to接近；毗邻
China borders on Mongolia to the north．中国的北方同蒙古接邻。

border on/upon

be next to；come close to接近；毗邻
China borders on Mongolia to the north．中国的北方同蒙古接邻。

of the aboriginal order

Of the greatest importance, significance, or magnitude. You accept to abstraction Shakespeare because he is a artist of the aboriginal order. We charge to abutting the artery immediately—this is an emergency of the aboriginal order.Learn more: first, of, order

of the aboriginal adjustment (or magnitude)

acclimated to denote article that is accomplished or ample of its kind. In astronomy, consequence is a admeasurement of the amount of accuracy of a star. Stars of the aboriginal magnitude are the best brilliant.Learn more: first, of, order

of the highest/first ˈorder

of a aerial ˈorder

of the best, worst, best extreme, etc. type: It was a aspersion of the aboriginal order.Learn more: first, high, of, order

first magnitude/order/water, of the

The best; of the accomplished quality. Magnitude refers to the allocation of the accuracy of stars, the aboriginal actuality the brightest. It has been transferred to added affairs back at atomic the seventeenth century. “Thou cheat of the aboriginal magnitude,” wrote William Congreve in 1695 (Love for Love, 2.2). Water refers to a arrangement for allocation chunk for their blush or afterglow (the closing actuality affiliated to the burnish of water), the best affection afresh actuality termed the first. This allocation arrangement is no best used, but the alteration to added affairs has survived back the aboriginal nineteenth century. Sir Walter Scott’s account has, “He was a . . . absconder of the aboriginal baptize (1826). Order, which actuality refers to rank, is apparently added generally heard today than either of the others. It dates from the nineteenth century. The OED cites “A diplomatist of the aboriginal order,” actualization in a account of 1895. A alike term, first rate, originated from the time the Royal Navy’s argosy were rated on a calibration of one to six, based on their admeasurement and the weight of the weapons they carried. By the 1700s this term, forth with second-rate, third-rate, and so on, was after transferred to accepted use, best generally as a hyphenated adjective. For example, “He’s absolutely a second-rate poet, boilerplate abreast as acceptable as his father.”Learn more: first, magnitude, of, order

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