téléphone arabe — meaning in English
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English meaning
- grapevine noun The woody vine on which grapes grow.
Senses
téléphone arabe is used for these senses in English:
- Chinese whispers (games, mostly, UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbor, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.
- grapevine An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
grapevine — full definition
- noun The woody vine on which grapes grow.
- noun An informal, person-to-person network through which rumors and news travel.