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...
blind as a bat/beetle/mole
Totally blind, or, figuratively, unseeing. None
of these animals is, by the way, truly blind. The bat flies about in the dark in
seemingly erratic paths (see BATS IN ONE’S BELFRY), and the beetle and mole
burrow through the ground. Nevertheless, these similes are quite old and have
become clichés. The bat analogy dates from the sixteenth century at least (John
Harvey); the mole and beetle similes come from Roman times and were cited
in translations by Erasmus.
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