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

• Belizean Creole: if dah no so, dah naily so
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無風不起浪／无风不起浪 (zh) (wú fēng bù qǐ làng), 无风不起浪 (zh) (wúfēng bù qǐ làng)

• Dutch: waar rook is, is vuur
• 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)
• Italian: non c'è fumo senza arrosto
• Japanese: 火のないところに煙は立たない (ja) (ひのないところに けむりはたたない, hi-no nai-tokoro-ni kemuri-ha tatanai)
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• Kikuyu: gatinyinyiraga gatarĩ gakunye
• Korean: 아니 땐 불에 연기 나랴 (ani ttaen bure yeon'gi narya)
• Polish: nie ma dymu bez ognia (pl)
• Portuguese: não há fumaça sem fogo
• Russian: нет ды́ма без огня́ (ru) (net dýma bez ognjá)
• Spanish: no hay humo sin fuego
• Swedish: ingen rök utan eld
• Turkish: ateş olmayan yerden duman çıkmaz
• Vietnamese: không có lửa làm sao có khói