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| it's like a skeleton at the feast о you started speaking with delight and finished with a sorry sight! (said about discrepancy between good beginning (e.g., good news, promising situation, words) and bad ending (e.g., later news, one's deeds)) | |||
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| start on a merry note, but finish on a sad one (Anglophile); give a bad ending to a good start (Anglophile); damn with faint praise (Anglophile); start with a bang and end with a fizzle (Moscowtran); start something well and end badly (Anglophile) | |||
| start well and end badly; start cheerfully and end sadly | |||
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| but finish on a sad one; start on a merry note; start well and end badly | |||
| начал за здравие, а кончил за упокой: 2 phrases in 1 subject |
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