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Meaning of hear on the grapevine | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc.

informal, transitive

Examples

“I heard on the office grapevine that you’re leaving us.”

“'[…] 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? […]'”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

hear oneself think hear out hear tell hear the end of it hear the grass grow hear the last of