double first

English

Noun

double first (plural double firsts)

1. (UK, Ireland) A first-class degree in both classics and mathematics.
2. (UK, Ireland) One who achieves such a degree.
   • 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     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 triumph

References

• “double first”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.