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  see: at the outset

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• From the sublime to the ridiculous

  From the beautiful to the silly, from great to puny. For example, They played first Bach and then an ad jingle—from the sublime to the ridiculous. The reverse, from the ridiculous to the sublime, is used with the opposite meaning. Coined by Tom Paine in The Age of Reason (1794), in which he said the […]

• From the top

  adverb phrase From the beginning: Let’s hear it again from the top [1950s+ Musicians; perhaps fr the musical instruction da capo, ”from the beginning,” literally, ”from the head”]

• From this day forward

  Also, from this day on; from now on. Beginning today and continuing forever, as in They promised to follow instructions from this day forward, or From now on I’ll do what you say. The first rather formal expression for this concept dates from about 1500. The second was used in the past tense by Thomas […]

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