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...
blow one’s own horn/trumpet, to
To brag about one’s own accom- plishments or ability, to promote oneself. The term originated in Roman times, and was translated into English early on. “I will sound the trumpet of
mine own merits,” wrote Abraham Fleming in 1576. It was a cliché by the
mid-nineteenth century, according to Eric Partridge, and gave rise to one of
W. S. Gilbert’s numerous puns (“The fellow is blowing his own strumpet,”
he said of a manager who was bragging about his actress-mistress).
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