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 mouth
Sad, unhappy. The term refers to a mournful facial expression, with the corners of the mouth drawn down. Known by the mid- seventeenth century, it appears in print in Bishop Joseph Hall’s Cases of Con- science (1649): “The Roman Orator was down in the mouth, finding himselfs thus cheated by the moneychanger.” Occasionally it appeared with at instead
of in (“He’ll never more be down-at-mouth,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante and His Circle, 1850), a usage that is now obsolete. See also DOWN IN THE DUMPS.
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