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| English | Russian |
| A face is blurred seen eye to eye, contours emerge only at a distance | Лицом к лицу лица не увидать, большое видится на расстоянии (Sergei Yesenin, Letter to a Woman. Transl. by Margaret Wettlin). Used in the figurative tense to mean that one can recognize the importance of an event or pass an objective judgment on it only when it has become a part of the past. VLZ_58) |