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...
black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
Very dark indeed. To these overused similes one can add ink (Spenser, Shakespeare), the crow or raven
(Petronius, Chaucer), soot (John Ray’s proverbs, 1678), ebony (Shake- speare), and coal (Chaucer). The comparison to night (and also midnight) was more common in the nineteenth century, although Milton also used it
(Paradise Lost), whereas black as pitch dates from Homer’s time (Iliad).
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