| 词汇 | rumor-mill |
| 释义 | rumor mill noun[ S ] US(UKrumour mill)us/ˈruː.mɚ ˌmɪl/uk /ˈruː.mə ˌmɪl/ a situation in which a number of people spread rumors about something: Recently the rumor mill went into overdrive with suggestions that the couple might split. Gossip and rumour a little bird told meidiom anecdotal bird bush telegraph dig for dirt dirt ear exposure hear (something) through/on the grapevineidiom hearsay lip on everyone's lipsidiom peddle rumoured say-so scandal scaremongering scoop snippety your ears must be burningidiom Examples of rumor millrumor mill Of course, the camera rumormill is as hot as ever these days, so there always could be some surprises in store. From The Verge Still, the rumormill churned even though nearly a year passed after filming completed before there was any evidence the two were dating. From Huffington Post This time, no return date was given, and the rumormill went into overdrive. From NBCNews.com Depending on the event, you may be dealing with a distributed population, interrupted communication and a rumormill running rampant. From Los Angeles Times Over many years, realtors, the local newspaper, private pre-schools, and the rumormill have steered middle class families away from the public schools. From Huffington Post Here's the latest from around the rumormill. From NJ.com He reassured me by telling me that the threat was picked up through the jailhouse rumormill and probably would not amount to much. From Huffington Post The rumormill has started to churn. From San Francisco Chronicle According to the rumormill he worked only several hours a day and spent most of time attending to his toilet. You're trafficking in junk science, in thoroughly debunked science, in the dizzy stuff of rumor mills and conspiracy theories. From TIME None of this, however, ever got beyond the proposal stage, or the rumormill, to become actual policy. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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