for one

Idioms and Phrases

Also, for one thing . As the first of several possible instances. For example, Everything seemed to go wrong; for one, we had a flat tire, and then we lost the keys , or I find many aspects of your proposal to be inadequate; for one thing, you don't specify where you'll get the money . For one can also be applied to a person, as in He doesn't like their behavior, and I for one agree with him .

Example Sentences

Or did you stay home alone, drowning your sorrows, eating your sad meal-for-one?

From The Daily Beast

Does he say it was a two-for-one sale and would prove a big saving when he used it on the Fourth of July?

From The Daily Beast

Bush and congressional Democrats in 2002 Sometimes, Morris is kind enough to offer us a two-for-one deal.

From The Daily Beast

You know as well as I do that this hundred-for-one rate is purely a local fiction.

From Project Gutenberg

Instead, he applied the necessary balm, and the pistols-for-two-and-coffee-for-one order was countermanded.

From Project Gutenberg

Such substitutions can be made only in exact one-for-one replacements.

From Project Gutenberg