hear on the grapevine

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hear on the grapevine

  1. (transitive, informal) To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc.
    • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 124
      ' […] But most of me mad dad's crew took off to American from what I can make out' - he's talking too much, he has to stop - 'from what I hear on the family grapevine, that's where they went, New York, their loss as far as I'm concerned, don't know what they're missing, eh? […] '

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Translations
to hear rumors — see hear through the grapevine
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