first impression

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English

Noun

first impression (plural first impressions)

  1. The event when one person first encounters another person and forms a mental image of them. Wp
    I obviously didn't make much of a first impression with him, because he didn't recognize me from the party two weeks ago.
  2. (law) (of a case, issue, etc.) The state of not having been previously raised within a particular jurisdiction. Wp
    Because the law was just recently passed, this is a case of first impression.

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