firstborn

Just as the law trumps any clause requiring the sacrifice of the licensee's firstborn on an altar.

In the early 80's P&P machines cost a few arms and a firstborn and probably were automated with paper tape!

Or a career in science may save your firstborn, or someone else's.

$5,000 per song plus a sound public thrashing and ownership of your firstborn.

The interest rate on that account is -3%, but please make sure you maintain a minimum balance of $100 trillion, or we will need to foreclose on your firstborn.

There is risk in money lending, as there is in borrowing, and at this juncture it's immoral to extract anything more from a victim who has already declared bankruptcy and offered up their firstborn.

In consideration you agree to provide Landlord with your firstborn within 30 days of his/her birth, or in the absence of children prior to 1 December 2020, $1,000,000 no later than 1 January 2021.

We have mostly been homeschoolers as our children have grown up, and our firstborn sent me a very kind email on Father's Day two years ago telling me he is glad I did that.

(That's why I love the metaphor from the article: grad school costs you your firstborn.) To put it another way: do you think you are paid enough for the quality of work you do?

I read it as "he asked me out on a date," not "he told me if I didn't go on a date with him he wouldn't hire me and he'd kill my firstborn." She had already not gotten the job.