at the first opportunity
idiom
: as soon as it is possible for someone to do something
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Not surprisingly, he was asked about it at the first opportunity.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Clement lost only one of his first 28 games in charge and won a trophy at the first opportunity when Rangers beat Aberdeen last February to claim the League Cup.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
New general managers often walk most minor-league RFAs in the system at the first opportunity.
—Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
But the new brigades are dysfunctional—with uneven leadership, missing equipment and entire battalions of undertrained, ambivalently led new recruits who have a bad habit of abandoning their brigade at the first opportunity.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Clement lost only one of his first 28 games in charge and won a trophy at the first opportunity when Rangers beat Aberdeen last February to claim the League Cup.
—Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
New general managers often walk most minor-league RFAs in the system at the first opportunity.
—Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
But the new brigades are dysfunctional—with uneven leadership, missing equipment and entire battalions of undertrained, ambivalently led new recruits who have a bad habit of abandoning their brigade at the first opportunity.
—David Axe, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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“At the first opportunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20first%20opportunity. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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