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at first hand

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Adv.1.at first hand - from the original source; directly; "I heard this story firsthand"
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In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"You'll never know anything at first hand," he began, almost savagely.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
Or, to put it plainer, I am to keep strictly within the limits of my own experience, and am not to inform you of what other persons told me-- for the very sufficient reason that you are to have the information from those other persons themselves, at first hand.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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