right off the bat

In other words, instead of spreading yourself too thin right off the bat, it can pay to sharpen your skills in one area first — like becoming a great chef — before branching out into new income streams or business ventures.

With “Sweetpea,” just right off the bat, I really connected with that character, and I also felt like I really knew what they wanted to do with it, and I felt like I had ideas for them.

“We both knew he had a talent for it right off the bat.”

Right off the bat, the vice president called out her opponent's "callousness" in his response to the hurricane and storms that have decimated much of the southeastern states.

When she first got into politics and was running the D.A.’s office in San Francisco, she had the Espinoza controversy right off the bat.