Chandler: Hmm, the game’s at one.

Ross: So?

Chandler: Dinner is at four, we’ll never gonna make it back.

Joey: So we’ll leave before it’s over, we’ll be back in time.

Chandler: You say that now, but it could take us a long time to get back home. Plus Joey could get lost and and they could have to page us to go pick him up.

Joey: Dude, two times that happened!

Chandler: Look, Monica has been working hard all day, she didn’t wanna host this thing in the first place, we shouldn’t go!

Ross: He’s right, man.

Explanation:

in the first place: used to talk about the beginning of a situation, or the situation before something happened:
Why did you agree to meet her in the first place?

چرا از همون اول کارموافقت کردی که  ببینیش؟

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