FIRST AND LAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first and last mean? 

• FIRST AND LAST (adverb)
  The adverb FIRST AND LAST has 1 sense:

1. taking everything together

  Familiarity information: FIRST AND LAST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST AND LAST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking everything together

Synonyms:

above all; first and last

Context example:

she was first and last a scientist

 Context examples 

Person's first and last name and the connection to the party.

(Person Info, NCI Thesaurus)

That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Take this advice: the first and last I shall offer you; then you will not want me or any one else, happen what may.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It's the first and last question, it's the whole question.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

I am here, for the first and last time, to take him away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you, first and last, these thirty year back—some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I might not have been prepared to give the little creature a very kind reception, if, on her removing the umbrella, which her utmost efforts were unable to shut up, she had shown me the volatile expression of face which had made so great an impression on me at our first and last meeting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)