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...
in a nutshell
Concisely or compactly, usually referring to written or spoken words. The Roman writer Pliny in his Natural History stated that Homer’s great (and very long) epic poem, the Iliad, was copied in such tiny
handwriting that the whole text could be enclosed in a nutshell. This obvi-
ous hyperbole caught the imagination of numerous subsequent writers who
referred to “the Iliad in a nutshell,” among them Jonathan Swift and Thomas
Carlyle. Later “the Iliad” was dropped and anything extremely compressed
was described as being in a nutshell, a cliché since the mid-nineteenth cen-
tury. See also IN A WORD
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