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...
drop dead I hate you, you are contemptible.
This rude imperative dates from the early 1900s. An early example appeared in John O’Hara’s novel Appointment in Samarra (1934): “‘Let’s put snow on his face.’ ‘Oh, drop dead.’” Interestingly enough, in the second half of the 1900s the term, now hyphen- ated drop-dead, began to be used as an adjective or adverb meaning “very” or
“exceedingly” and usually in a positive context. It was frequently paired, espe-
cially in the phrase drop-dead gorgeous. For example, “She arrived at the screen-
ing in furs and diamonds, looking drop-dead gorgeous.”
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