rumour has it
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UK According to rumour or gossip.
- Rumour has it Joe is looking for a new job.
- Rumour has it that a new luxury lounge car design is also under discussion at the moment.1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 2:
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- “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.2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
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- the story goes