To make a last-ditch effort. This extreme measure was first recorded in print in the seventeenth century. An early use occurs in John Fletcher’s play The Island Princess (1621), where a character says, “Do or die”
(2.4). Before long it came to be used figuratively, although it reverted to lit- eral use (and changed form) in Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
(1854): “Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of
Death Rode the six hundred.”
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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