At once, instantly. No one seems
to be able to trace this term precisely or to discover the identity of Jack
Robinson. Its earliest documented use was in 1778 in Fanny Burney’s
Evelina (“I’d do it as soon as say Jack Robinson”). It appears in Dickens’s A
Christmas Carol and Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. According to Francis Grose’s
Classical Dictionary (1785), the original Jack Robinson was a gentleman who
called on his neighbors so peremptorily that there was hardly time to
announce him before he was gone.
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...
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