double first

noun — 2 senses

double first

noun

1

Ireland, UK A first-class degree in both classics and mathematics.

2

Ireland, UK One who achieves such a degree.

Chess-playing requires complete abstraction, and Nigel, though he was a double-first, occasionally lost a game from a lapse in that condensed attention that secures triumph1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

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