Dictionary

rumour has it en · X

Meanings

1. (UK) According to rumour or gossip.
   • Rumour has it that a new luxury lounge car design is also under discussion at the moment. 1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 2:
   • “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. 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
   • Rumour has it Joe is looking for a new job.

Forms

Relateds

the story goes

Synonyms

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

Translations (27)

it si mormora (there is a rumor that...) · pt dizem por aí (there is a rumor that...) · de dass ... (there is a rumor that...) · de man sagt (there is a rumor that...) · pl płotka głosi, że (there is a rumor that...) · fr le bruit court (que…) (there is a rumor that...) · it pare che (there is a rumor that...) · ckb دەنگ بڵاو ە (there is a rumor that...) · ru хо́дят слу́хи, что ... (there is a rumor that...) · zdj hari (there is a rumor that...) · ro umblă vorba că … (there is a rumor that...) · ka ხმა დადის (there is a rumor that...) · de Gerüchten zufolge (there is a rumor that...) · ru говоря́т, что ... (there is a rumor that...) · it si dice (there is a rumor that...) · ja …といううわさだ (there is a rumor that...) · es dicen las malas lenguas (there is a rumor that...) · fi huhu kertoo (there is a rumor that...) · de Gerüchte besagen (there is a rumor that...) · es corre el rumor de que (there is a rumor that...) · fr on dit (que…) (there is a rumor that...) · cmn 有傳言說…… /有传言说…… (there is a rumor that...) · ko […]라고 소문이다 (there is a rumor that...) · kmr deng belav e (there is a rumor that...) · fi kerrotaan (there is a rumor that...) · fi huhutaan (there is a rumor that...) · fr il parait (que…) (there is a rumor that...)