"an ace reporter"
"a crack shot"
"a first-rate golfer"
"a super party"
"played top-notch tennis"
"an athlete in tiptop condition"
"she is absolutely tops"
"she doesn't feel first-rate today"
As long as France remained a first-rate power.
出自: M. E. G. Duff
Her misfortune was to be a merely first-rate painter in an age of geniuses.
出自: M. Gordon