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...
get cracking/rolling
Begin, get busy, hurry up. The first of these collo- quialisms originated in Great Britain in the 1930s and appears to have crossed the Atlantic during World War II. It uses crack in the sense of “move
fast,” a usage dating from the late nineteenth century, and is often put as an
imperative, as in “Now get cracking before it starts to rain.” The synony-
mous get rolling, dating from the first half of the 1900s, alludes to setting
wheels in motion. It, too, may be used as an imperative, but is more often
heard in such locutions as “Jake said it’s time to get rolling on the contracts.”
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