hear through the grapevine

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hear rumors; to learn through hearsay. idiomatic
    — I heard through the grapevine that she likes him.

词形变化

hears through the grapevine present,singular,third-person hearing through the grapevine participle,present heard through the grapevine participle,past heard through the grapevine past

词源

From the Grapevine, a telegraph line that ran from Placerville, California, to Virginia City, Nevada, beginning in 1859, and that was loosely strung from trees so that it curled like the vines of California grapes. In 1861 it was replaced by the Pacific Telegraph, which was strung from poles, and during the American Civil War "grapevine telegraph" became proverbialized to refer to poor and rumor-prone communications in areas cut off by the war.
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