no smoke without fire

English

Alternative forms

• there's no smoke without fire, where there's smoke, there's fire

Proverb

no smoke without fire

1. Gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.

Translations

gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belizean Creole: if dah no so, dah naily so
• Bengali: অকারণে কিছুই ঘটে না (bn) (okarone kichui ghoṭe na)
• Catalan: quan els gossos lladren, alguna cosa senten, si l'olla bull, alguna cosa hi ha, si hi ha fum, hi ha foc
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 無風不起浪／无风不起浪 (mou⁴ fung¹ bat¹ hei² long⁶), 無火不生煙／无火不生烟 (mou⁴ fo² bat¹ sang¹ jin¹)

  Mandarin: 無風不起浪／无风不起浪 (zh) (wú fēng bù qǐ làng), 蒼蠅不叮無縫的蛋／苍蝇不叮无缝的蛋 (cāngying bù dīng wú fèng de dàn), 無火不生煙／无火不生烟 (wú huǒ bù shēng yān)

• Czech: na každém šprochu pravdy trochu (cs)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: waar rook is, is vuur, geen rook zonder vuur
• Esperanto: ne ekzistas fumo sen fajro
• Finnish: ei savua ilman tulta
• French: il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu (fr)
• German: kein Rauch ohne Feuer, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer (de), Irgendetwas ist immer dran
• Greek: δεν υπάρχει καπνός χωρίς φωτιά (den ypárchei kapnós chorís fotiá)
• Hebrew: אין עשן בלי אש (he) (ein ashán bli esh)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: nem zörög a haraszt, ha a szél nem fújja
• Indonesian: ada bau, ada bangkainya
• Italian: non c'è fumo senza arrosto
• Japanese: 火のないところに煙は立たない (ja) (hi no nai tokoro ni kemuri wa tatanai)
• Kikuyu: gatinyinyiraga gatarĩ gakunye
• Korean: 아니 땐 불에 연기 나랴 (ani ttaen bure yeon'gi narya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: der er ingen røyk uten ild

  Nynorsk: der er ingen røyk utan eld

• Polish: nie ma dymu bez ognia (pl)
• Portuguese: não há fumaça sem fogo
• Romanian: nu iese fum fără foc
• Russian: нет ды́ма без огня́ (ru) (net dýma bez ognjá)
• Spanish: cuando el río suena, agua lleva, no hay humo sin fuego
• Swedish: ingen rök utan eld
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ateş olmayan yerden duman çıkmaz
• Vietnamese: không có lửa làm sao có khói