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| English | Russian |
| first impressions are most lasting | первое впечатление самое сильное |
| first impressions are most lasting | встречают по одёжке, провожают по уму (you judge a person first by his looks and then, as you get to know him, by his inner qualities. used sometimes as advice to mean: one should better be dressed well for paying a visit to a place for the first time to make a good first impression) |
| first impressions are most lasting | по платью встречают, по уму провожают (you judge a person first by his looks and then, as you get to know him, by his inner qualities. used sometimes as advice to mean: one should better be dressed well for paying a visit to a place for the first time to make a good first impression) |