Brewer's: First-fruits

The first profitable results of labour. In husbandry, the first corn that is cut at harvest. We also use the word in an evil sense; as, the first-fruits of sin, the first-fruits of repentance.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
First Water
First-class Hard Labour
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