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 top/stack/fuse, to
To lose one’s temper. The first two terms allude to clearing the stack of a ship by blowing air through it; the last refers to the sudden power stoppage when a fuse blows. All are slang from the first half
of the twentieth century. Jane Smiley wrote in Horse Heaven (2000), “‘It’s kind
of fun in a way. At least I get to blow my stack a lot and they don’t mind. Blow-
ing your stack is the way they do things here.’”
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