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AT THE FIRST BLUSH

Definition: AT THE FIRST BLUSH

AT THE FIRST BLUSH

1. At the first appearance or view. ``At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France.'' --Hakluyt. Note: This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. ``All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear,'' etc. --Locke.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: AT THE FIRST BLUSH

Language Translations for "AT THE FIRST BLUSH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

látszólag (apparently, at first sight, at the first go-off, on the surface, ostensibly, professedly, quasi, seemingly, superficially), első látásra (at first sight, at the first glance, at the first go-off, first off, to click). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay ethay irstfay ushblay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AT THE FIRST BLUSH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-h-i-l-r-s-s-t-t-t-u"

-5 letters: attributes, bisulfates, blueshifts, brutalises, butterfats, butterfish, flashtubes, herbalists, thriftless, tribulates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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