first blush

1. 1.

   at the first glimpse or impression

   “at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails”

   Broaderimpression

Questions about first blush

What does first blush mean?

first blush means "at the first glimpse or impression".

Is first blush a common word?

first blush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.