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Bad news circulates quickly because people often circulate it everywhere.
In small towns, as the saying goes, bad news travels fast. St. Charles, Idaho was no exception. Recent going's on eventually makes their way to people one might not expect.
2012, J.W. James III, North Beach Road, →ISBN, page 66:After all, reorganizations, personnel changes, new policies on subjects such as travel and expense reports, are everyday occurrences, but the rumor that the Vice President of Sales has a son at college who was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, aha! That is another matter. That is news! Once put out on the grapevine, it will travel with blinding speed around the circuit. Bad news travels fast.
1992, Robert L. Genua, Managing Your Mouth: An Owner's Manual for Your Most Important Business Asset, →ISBN:Bad news travels fast, especially when it travels by satellite. I had picked up the receiver with a sense of dread. I expected to hear on the other end an obscene caller, a local news person looking for fresh dirt, a concerned but nosy friend.
2011, Wendy Hornsby, Bad Intent, →ISBN:
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no news is good news · a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on
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ja 悪事千里を走る (Translations) · ar الأخبار السيئة تنتشر بسرعة (Translations) · fi huonot uutiset kiirivät nopeasti (Translations) · cmn 壞事傳千里 /坏事传千里 (Translations) · pl złe wieści szybko się rozchodzą (Translations) · pt as más notícias viajam depressam (Translations) · vi tiếng dữ đồn xa (Translations) · ko 발 없는 말이 천 리 간다 (Translations) · de schlechte Nachrichten verbreiten sich schnell (Translations)