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Idioms and Phrases
Also, for one thing . As the first of several possible instances. For example, Everything seemed to go wrong; for one, we had a flat tire, and then we lost the keys , or I find many aspects of your proposal to be inadequate; for one thing, you don't specify where you'll get the money . For one can also be applied to a person, as in He doesn't like their behavior, and I for one agree with him .Example Sentences
Or did you stay home alone, drowning your sorrows, eating your sad meal-for-one?
Does he say it was a two-for-one sale and would prove a big saving when he used it on the Fourth of July?
Bush and congressional Democrats in 2002 Sometimes, Morris is kind enough to offer us a two-for-one deal.
You know as well as I do that this hundred-for-one rate is purely a local fiction.
Instead, he applied the necessary balm, and the pistols-for-two-and-coffee-for-one order was countermanded.
Such substitutions can be made only in exact one-for-one replacements.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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