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谚语	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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一般	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)
Gruzovik, 过时/过时	start well and end badly; start cheerfully and end sadly
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非正式的	but finish on a sad one; start on a merry note; start well and end badly

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