first-rate

first-rate

1. adjective Excellent; of the best or highest possible quality or rank. That movie was positively first-rate! The tiny nation boasts a first-rate healthcare system.
2. adverb Very well; superbly; fantastically. I hear Joanna did first-rate on her exams last week.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • kewl
  • at any rate
  • first in, best dressed
  • first refusal
  • first go
  • at this/that rate
  • at that rate
  • first thing
  • at first sight
  • at this rate
References in periodicals archive
Another remarkable triumph was when Clare Gormley came up with a phenomenal Blanche de la Force in a revival of Dialogues des Carmelites, bringing an incandescent spirituality to a first-rate revival of a first-rate production by Elijah Moshinsky under the first-rate baton of Myer Fredman.
Puerto Rico is also has a first-rate banking system comparable to G-7 economies and the most modern telecommunications system in Latin America.
Mr Steve Philpott, managing director of David Lloyd, said: "These are first-rate clubs, with first-rate staff, whose annual sales exceed pounds 19 million and which fit well at the top end of our existing business."
"We want the companies we present to be first-rate," he says.
The tension between Rayburn'spopulist ideals and the need to "get along' ought to provide material for a first-rate biography.
"Through thoughtful collaboration with the public sector, private developers can create first-rate, energy-efficient housing that local working families can afford," said Matthew G.
Put this into the hands of high-school students as a model of first-rate prose and cultural history.
Now Aid to Women is a first-rate pro-life organization in Toronto which helps an estimated one hundred women a year seeking an abortion to carry their baby to term instead, and be happy for the rest of their lives.
Rittstein is one of the few Czech artists of his generation to be producing first-rate art without one feeling that he is straining to conform to the most obvious trends in an increasingly international - and therefore homogenized - art scene.
In addition, Balletto di Sicilia included in this production of II berretto a sonagli a first-rate guest, Toni Candeloro, whose flawless technique and interpretation should make him a renowned dancer.
Directed at a roiling boil by Angela Pope, it's ferociously acted by a first-rate cast, But for all its fireworks, Hollow Reed keeps the viewer at an emotional distance.
Designed by HLW International, LLP, and constructed by Tishman Construction Corporation, Court Square Place also boasts high-tech office space and key-card access, optical turnstile security systems; first-rate amenities, including a full-service cafeteria and coffee bar; and spectacular views of Midtown, the Manhattan skyline and the 59th Street Bridge.
Indeed, science would know them as first-rate theoretical physicists even if they had never tried to make a practical machine.
All of the dancers are first-rate, with Orazio Caiti, Monica Garcia y Vicente, and Fabio Grassi particularly notable.
"The firm sought space in an area known for first-rate financial tenants and 75 Broad Street met all of its requirements perfectly.