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...
fiddle while Rome burns, to
To busy oneself with trivial matters during
a crisis. The expression comes from the legend that during the burning of
Rome (A.D. 64), the Emperor Nero played his lyre while watching the spec-
tacle from a high tower. Indeed, the historian Suetonius alleged that Nero
had ordered the fire set in order to see how Troy had looked when it burned.
The expression was probably already a cliché by the time Charles Kingsley
wrote in Westward Ho! (1855), “It is fiddling while Rome burns to spend
more pages over . . . Rose Saltenere, while the destinies of Europe are hang-
ing on the marriage between Elizabeth and Anjou.”
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