rumour has it

English

Alternative forms

• rumor has it

Phrase

rumour has it

1. people who gossip are saying that..., there is a rumor going around that...

   Rumour has it Joe is looking for a new job.

   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     “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.

Synonyms

• word has it

Translations

there is a rumor that...

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有傳言說……／有传言说……, 有传言说…… (yǒu chuányán shuō…)

• Finnish: huhu kertoo, huhutaan
• French: il parait (fr) (que…), le bruit court (fr) (que…), on dit (fr) (que…)
• Georgian: ხმა დადის (xma dadis)
• German: man sagt, dass ... (de), Gerüchte besagen, dass ... (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: …といううわさだ (... to iu uwasa da) (informative or plain style)
• Korean: ...라고 소문이다 (...rago somunida)
• Ngazidja Comorian: hari
• Portuguese: dizem por aí
• Russian: говоря́т, что ... (govorját, što ...), хо́дят слу́хи, что ... (xódjat slúxi, što ...)
• Spanish: dicen las malas lenguas

See also

• the story goes