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...
come to a head, to
To reach a climax or culminating point. The analogy
is to an ulcer or boil that has ripened to the point of suppuration, that is,
bursting. Indeed, such sores were said to “come to a head” as early as the
early seventeenth century. By then the term had long since been transferred
to other matters (the OED lists the earliest figurative use of it from 1340). In
1596 Edmund Spenser, describing the state of Ireland, wrote, “to keep them
[i.e., these affairs] from growing to such a head.”
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