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...
down in the dumps, to be
To be sad or dispirited. The “dumps” referred
to are not the modern rubbish heap but a heavy, oppressive mental haze or
dullness (from the Dutch words domp and German dumpf). The expression
was used several times by Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus 1.1; The Taming of the
Shrew 2.1; Much Ado about Nothing 2.3) and was well known as “in the
dumps” until the eighteenth century. See also DOWN IN THE MOUTH.
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