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• rumor has it (US spelling)

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rumour has it (British spelling)

1. According to rumour or gossip. Rumour has it Joe is looking for a new job.
   • 1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 2:Rumour has it that a new luxury lounge car design is also under discussion at the moment.
   • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:“Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.

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• word has it
• hear through the grapevine
• a little bird told me

Translations

[edit] there is a rumor that...

Chinese: Mandarin: 有傳言說…… / 有传言说…… (yǒu chuányán shuō…) Comorian: Ngazidja Comorian: hari Finnish: huhu kertoo, huhutaan (fi), kerrotaan French: il parait (fr) (que…), le bruit court (fr) (que…), on dit (fr) (que…) Georgian: ხმა დადის (xma dadis) German: man sagt, dass ... (de), Gerüchte besagen, dass ... (de), Gerüchten zufolge Italian: si dice, si mormora, pare che Japanese: …といううわさだ (... to iu uwasa da) (informative or plain style) Korean: […]라고 소문이다 ([ … ]-rago somun-ida) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەنگ بڵاو ە (deng bllaw e) Northern Kurdish: deng belav e Polish: płotka głosi, że Portuguese: dizem por aí Romanian: umblă vorba că … Russian: говоря́т, что ... (govorját, što ...), хо́дят слу́хи, что ... (xódjat slúxi, što ...) Spanish: dicen las malas lenguas, corre el rumor de que

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• the story goes

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