Idiom
first come, first served
Meaning
One will be dealt with in the order in which one arrives.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Tickets are first come, first served.”
“We have limited seats for the event, so it is first come, first served.”
“The charity distributed the remaining supplies on a first come, first served basis to the long line of people waiting outside.”
Examples
simple
“Tickets are first come, first served.”
contextual
“We have limited seats for the event, so it is first come, first served.”
complex
“The charity distributed the remaining supplies on a first come, first served basis to the long line of people waiting outside.”
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