To venture into new territory. The allusion here is
to the timid swimmer who is wary of getting into the water at all. Although
this particular expression dates only from the early twentieth century, a sim-
ilar idea was expressed more than four hundred years earlier by John Lyly in
Euphues and his England (1580): “I resemble those that hauing once wet their
feete, care not hoe deepe they wade”; in other words, once having gotten up
one’s nerve to try something new, one is more willing to plunge in all the
way. In The Glorious Fault (1960) Leonard Mosley combined two metaphors:
“In parliamentary life, he [Curzon] was to be one who stayed to get his feet
wet before deciding that a ship was sinking.”
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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