| We fought over who was going to New York to marry Mark Ruffalo, but Tash said she had first dibs. |
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| I thought I should have first dibs since I live with him, but Shelly decided that was an unfair advantage, and it tumbled down hill from there. |
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| So all you ladies jumping on the bandwagon after this movie, tough luck, but I've got first dibs! |
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| University technology offices, which legally have first dibs at commercialising the faculty's ideas, have evolved into clumsy bureaucracies. |
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| If, as is likely, the vote produces a hung parliament, Mrs Patil would have to decide which party should have first dibs at forming a government. |
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| It gives newly-weds first dibs on housing. |
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| As lead rooster, I get first dibs on the bike and will visit Cape Breton at the end of June, planning a route that will mix paved with dirt roads, something we have plenty of in rural Quebec. |
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| They got first dibs on the seasides and mountain passes. |
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| You get first dibs on all of the Elvis gags. |
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| Plus, Con Ed gets first dibs on whatever comes over the transom. |
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| America's generals almost always get first dibs on the intelligence assets, such as spy satellites, that they share with civilian agencies, and in wartime they always do. |
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| Using data from the World Values Survey, they show that descendants of plough-users are significantly more likely to agree with a statement that men should have first dibs on jobs when unemployment is high. |
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| The boss insisted on having first dibs on the best car space. |
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