Talk:dead first

RFV discussion
First couple pages of Google News and Google Books searches did not yield any credible candidates. Has anyone ever heard this expression used? -- Ghost of WikiPedant 05:36, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Never (I would have just deleted it). SemperBlotto 06:45, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Haven't heard it, but would it mean dead: + first:, patterned after dead last, which also seems SoP to me. DCDuring TALK 01:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think dead last: merits an entry, as do most technically-SOP compound terms which use a relatively obscure sense of one or more of the component words. Anyhow, getting back to dead first:, after some deeper digging I've added more quotations and I think it is now adequately cited. -- Ghost of WikiPedant 04:28, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * What's obscure here? dead? "Dead" appears as adverb more than 4400 times in COCA? I'm afraid you are dead wrong about this. DCDuring TALK 09:59, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed, but of course,, you are welcome to RFD it. (As is anyone else, for that matter.) —Ruakh TALK 01:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)