"first to strike, last to fall"とは 意味・読み方・使い方

fall [be, lie] on one's back

fall [come] due

fall in two [asunder]

a rash of strikes [burglaries]

Who struck the first blow?

fall [pass, sink] into oblivion

fall [get] into a passion

“Harm set, harm get,”

fall [go off] into a doze

fall [get, become] ill

“One calamity follows on the heels of another”

the first and last

“Grasp all, lose all.”

bend the end of the wire up [down, back]

strike [go on] a reef

a first step

the first stroke of a sword

“Harm watch, harm catch”

“Harm watch, harm catch”

a sharp rise [fall]

get [go] off to a flying start

“Tread on a worm, and it will turn”

an act of defeating the first enemy encountered in a battle

start suddenly, as from fright

“As you sow, so you reap”

fall on hard times [evil days]

speculate on a rise [fall]

to climb an unclimbed mountain for the first time

the beginning and the end of something

“Lightly got, lightly spent”