Timeline for "at first glance" VS "at a first glance"
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| May 17, 2021 at 5:36 | history | edited | Atrin Noori | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2021 at 19:06 | vote | accept | Smart Humanism | ||
| May 16, 2021 at 9:46 | comment | added | Old Brixtonian | @Atrin Noori That's right. Although we can use glimpse as a verb, it's most commonly used as a noun, in "to catch a glimpse of" for example. There are lots of examples here. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 4:46 | comment | added | Atrin Noori | @OldBrixtonian yeah that makes sense, So let me see at a first glance... I knew she was mine... now if we say at a first glance, somehow means at a glimpse or just a brief look to something, I guess we cant use it just as an ordinary sentence | |
| May 15, 2021 at 20:40 | comment | added | Old Brixtonian | We say, "With the first glimpse of dawn we shall move on": not "At the first glance of dawn..." But as long as you and the OP understand each other... :-) | |
| May 15, 2021 at 16:05 | comment | added | Atrin Noori | @SmartHumanism Kinda like that :) | |
| May 15, 2021 at 16:03 | comment | added | Atrin Noori | @OldBrixtonian I know what you mean... I didn't mean if a person see the dawn... I was referring to a poetry like the sun see the earth... you know a kind of literature | |
| May 15, 2021 at 10:32 | comment | added | Old Brixtonian | @Atrin Noori: You are confusing the words "glimpse" and "glance"! | |
| May 15, 2021 at 9:46 | comment | added | Smart Humanism | Thank you. Aha, I got your point. It means that at a first glance sounds more specific with a lot of spectrum it can be used outside the meaning of at first glance. :) | |
| May 15, 2021 at 9:03 | history | answered | Atrin Noori | CC BY-SA 4.0 |