| proverb |
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); 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); первое впечатление самое сильное |
