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What does at first blush mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at first blush? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Upon first impression or consideration; seemingly, apparently, ostensibly.
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The episode involving waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr., would at first blush seem to highlight a double standard.
Therefore, I will pose a question that might at first blush appear to be outside of the box.
However, to lay people symptoms of arsenic poisoning would appear at first blush to be a simple case of cardiac failure.
The kind of universal electoral process you describe sounds wonderful at first blush and I might even consider voting for such a system.
The exercise of judicial discretion in a case such as the present may seem at first blush a picayune matter.
The idea that women could do these things to women seems at first blush to potentially invalidate these theories.

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