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 pinch
When hard-pressed. The British version of this expression, “at
a pinch,” dates from the fifteenth century, when William Caxton in his
translation of The Book of Faytes of Armes and of Chyualrye (1489) wrote, “Cor-
ageously at a pynche [he] shal renne vpon hem.” By the time Robert Louis
Stevenson wrote Black Arrow (1888) it also was put as, “It yet might serve
him, in a pinch.” A related expression of more recent provenance is in a
jam, which similarly implies that one is “compressed” or “squeezed,” by cir-
cumstance, into a tight spot.
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