rumour has it

English

Alternative forms

• rumor has it (US spelling)

Phrase

rumour has it (simple past rumour had 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

there is a rumor that...

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有傳言說……／有传言说…… (yǒu chuányán shuō…)

• 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
• Japanese: …といううわさだ (... to iu uwasa da) (informative or plain style)
• Korean: […] 라고 소문이다 ([ … ] -rago somun-ida)
• Ngazidja Comorian: hari
• 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

See also

• the story goes