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...
bold as brass
Shameless, impudent. This simile probably has the same source as brazen, which can mean either “made of brass” or “shameless,” “too bold.” The latter is older, dating at least from Shakespeare’s time (“What a brazen-faced varlet art thou!” King Lear, 2.2). The present cliché dates from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, although brass alone in the sense
of “shameless” is older (sixteenth century). “Can any face of brass hold longer
out?” wrote Shakespeare in Love’s Labour’s Lost (5.2), and Thomas Fuller (The
Profane State, 1642) wrote still more explicitly, “His face is of brasse, which
may be said either ever or never to blush.”
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