History of i heard it through the grape vine

She heard on the grapevine that he had come back to London.

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Win tickets to New Year's Eve party. The Midlands' next big thing? The invention was widely welcomed as a means of rapidly communicating news. It soon became clear though that close communities already had effective word-of-mouth communications.

Soon after the telegraph was invented the term 'grapevine telegraph' was coined - first recorded in a US dictionary in This distinguished the new direct 'down-the-wire' telegraph from the earlier method, which was likened to the coiling tendrils of a vine. It's clear that the allusion was to interactions amongst people who could be expected to be found amongst grapevines, that is, the rural poor.

In , The Reno Evening Gazette ran an article about a bumper corn and grape crop. Retrieved September 16, Archived from the original on January 21, The Daily Record.

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