what's the grapevine?

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i don't get how people answered as "i heard it through the grapevine"
what does this mean?

Answer 1

The gossip network at work, school or any other place.

Answer 2

Grapevines...that have grapes growing on them go out for a long ways and they spread out all over. I single vine can be huge!

Well the human communication network is the same way. Think of each group or cluster of grapes as a group of people.

If a rumor starts out on the floor of an office, it'll work it's way through the whole company because everyone is connected to each other through word of mouth or email. Much like all the grape clusters are connected on a grapevine.

Answer 3

Heard it through the grapevine

Meaning

An indication that a piece of information was obtained via an informal contact.

Origin

The first practical public demonstration of the telegraph was given in 1844, when Samuel Morse sent a message from Washington to Baltimore. 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 1852. 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, i.e. the rural poor.

In 1876, The Reno Evening Gazette ran an article about a bumper corn and grape crop. They commented on the fact that the people who were then called Indians and Negroes seemed to be already aware of it (hardly a surprise you might think as it would have been they who had harvested the crops):

"It would seem that the Indians have some mysterious means of conveying the news, like the famous grapevine telegraph of the negroes in the [American Civil] war. The Pioneer Press and Tribune says that, while the first telegraphic news of Custer's death reached them at midnight, the Indians loafing about town were inquiring about it at noon."

The term 'bush telegraph' originated in Australia, probably influenced by 'grapevine telegraph'. That referred to the informal network that passed information about police movements to convicts who were hiding in the bush. It was recorded in 1878 by an Australian author called Morris:

"The police are baffled by the number and activity of the bush telegraphs."

heard it through the grapevineIn the UK it was the 'jungle telegraph' - referring to communications in outposts of the British Empire around the same period.

Of course 'heard it through the grapevine' is best known to us as the Motown song, recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips in 1967 and by Marvin Gaye in 1968. It's salutary that, whilst the telegraph is long gone, the person-to-person communication that preceded it is still going strong.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It's a metaphor. Think of what a grapevine looks like and imagine that the vines grow in all sorts of directions through ins and outs until you reach the end of the vine. Now think back to all of the places along the vine and compare them to a piece of information that travels through various people until it reaches you.

It's basically a metaphor saying that you can trace the piece of information back to it's source by following the people who'v passed it on.

Hope this helps

Answer 6

Also known as the gossip train. Think of an actual grapevine. Now think of the grapes as people and the information, or gossip in some cases gets sent on down the line. One person tells someone who tells someone else. I heard it through the grapevine is like I heard it from so and so who heard it from so and so.

Answer 7

It's a song: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
He gave the first line, and we responded to it that way.

Ooh, I bet you're wond'rin' how I knew
'bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
Between the two of us guys you know I love you more
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday
Dontcha know that I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
Oh I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh)

I know a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'cause you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself
That you love someone else
Instead I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

People say believe half of what you see
Son, and none of what you hear
But I can't help bein' confused
If it's true please tell me dear
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy you loved before?
Dontcha know I

Heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Baby I heard it through the grapevine
Ooh I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
(Heard it through the grapevine)
(Not much longer would you be my baby, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Honey, honey, I know
That you're lettin' me go
Said I heard it through the grapevine

Answer 8

the grapevine, a vine that just branches on and spreads out, like gossip. That is how the saying was born.

Answer 9

Ironically, it's the name of the Alcoholics Anonymous journal.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

the grapevine are hills you drive through when you are heading in LA and or Hollywood. It is also what grapes grow on and a song "underneath the grape vine, I believe there is also s a dance called the grape vine.