for openers

Idioms and Phrases

Also, for starters . To begin with. For example, Out of 50 possible jurors they eliminated 30, for openers , or She believed him, which indicated, for starters, that she was very gullible . The word starters is also used for the appetizer or first course of a meal, as in For starters we had shrimp cocktail . [Mid-1900s]