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 you're 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

See also

• the story goes

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