The phrase "first place" means being in the top position or winning something.
Sentences with «fist place»
You might then need them, and diapers eventually can make great dusters or other cleaning cloths (which cost to buy in the fist place). (theaccidentalwallflower.com)
I began researching all I could about our relationship to the sweet stuff and how it got into our food system in the fist place. (sugardetox.me)
What happened to the alien race that brought them to Earth in the fist place? (smellslikescreenspirit.com)