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...
drum up
To gather, to summon. Alluding to summoning recruits by beating
a drum, this term has been used figuratively since the 1600s. It is often used in
a business sense, as it was by Thomas Gray in a letter of 1849: “I will then
drum up subscribers for Fendler.” An antonym is to drum out, meaning to dis-
miss or oust. In the military this, too, was signaled by beating a drum. This
came to mean being fired from a job but is not heard as often today.
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