Question
Hear it on the
grapevine In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it as your answer.Solution
To hear it on the grapevine is an idiomatic expression which means to hear some news from someone who heard it from someone else.
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