Who are the most influential Bolivians, according to Bloomberg Línea?
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* Businessmen Marcelo Claure, Mario Anglarill Salvatierra, and Samuel Doria
Medina stand out. The criteria considered include the ability to generate
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end of one’s rope/tether, at the/come to the
To have exhausted one’s resources or abilities. The term alludes to a tethered (roped) animal that can graze only as far as the length of the rope permits. “Being run to the end of his Rope, as one that had no more Excuses to make,” wrote Sir John Chardin in 1686 (The Coronation of Solyman the Third). “I am at the end
of my tether” was close to being a cliché by the time Royall Tyler used the line in his comedy The Contrast (first U.S. production in 1787).
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