The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
eat someone out of house and home, to
To consume
a
great
deal. This expression is
at least
two
thousand years old.
It
appeared in
the Alexandrian philosopher Philo’s De Agricultura (c. A.D. 40) as well as in numerous English
writings, before Shakespeare used
it for Mistress Quickly’s description
of the
gluttonous Falstaff: “He
hath eaten
me out
of house and home” (Henry IV, Part 2, 2.1).
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