This expression began life in the eigh- teenth century as dull as ditchwater, alluding to the muddy color of the water
in roadside gullies. “He’d be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, if he wasn’t as dull as ditchwater,” says Dickens’s Fanny Cleaver (Oliver Twist). This version survived on both sides of the Atlantic well into the twentieth century.
Either through careless pronunciation or through similar analogy it occasionally became dishwater—water in which dishes had been washed and
which consequently was dingy and grayish.
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...
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