To exact
as much
as possible from
a
transac- tion. Drive in this expression is in the sense of vigorously carrying through something. It
was
so used
as long
ago as
the sixteenth
century, when
Sir Philip
Sidney wrote, “There never was a better bargain driven” (My True Love Hath My
Heart, 1583).
Hard, in
the sense
of “unyielding,” is
coupled with
bargain
even
earlier, in
a
translation from
the Greek
of Suidas
(Lexicon, c. A.D. 950): “A hard bargainer
never gets good meat.”
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...
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