to hear rumours about something
to hear some news from someone who heard it from someone else
to learn of something informally, usually verbally
I heard on the grapevine that he was being promoted, but I don’t know anything further.
It was heard through the grapevine that the captain of the team was stepping down, but the news could not be confirmed.
We keep hearing it on the grapevine that the two co-stars of that movie are getting married, but they are not saying anything.
We heard on the grapevine that our company would be taken over by another one, but the official communication says otherwise.
I heard on the grapevine that our neighbours were expecting a baby, but I don’t know much about it.
There is no origin for this idiom
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