first and last

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Adv.1.first and last - taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist"
above all
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It's you Germans made all the trouble in Europe first and last. And all for nothin'.
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Patrick is the author of Nimitz Class, hailed the greatest novel of submarine warfare since Hunt For Red October.A GAPING hole and a cruel jagged split along the pressure hull - the jet-black steel whale had taken its first and last harpoon.
Barents is already a grave for tragic crew of the Kursk
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