About Rumours

Question 1

Répandre une rumeur

Answer 1

To spread a rumour

Question 2

Une rumeur infondée

Answer 2

An unfounded rumour

Question 3

La rumeur veut que… / le bruit court que..

Answer 3

Rumour has it that

Question 4

Mette fin à une rumeur

Answer 4

To put an end to the rumour

Question 5

Révéler un secret

Answer 5

Revealing a secret

Question 6

Beaucoup de bruit pour rien

Answer 6

Much ado about nothing

Question 7

Faire mentir le proverbe

Answer 7

To give the lie to the proverb

Question 8

Dépasser la mesure

Answer 8

To overstep the mark

Question 9

To give somebody to understand / to let it be understood / to imply / to suggest / to intimate that…

Answer 9

Jsiebf

Question 10

Si étrange qu’il soit

Answer 10

Strange as it may be

Question 11

Il n’y a pas de fumée dans feu

Answer 11

There is no smoke without fire

Question 12

Il y a quelque chose qui cloche

Answer 12

There’s something fishy going on

Question 13

Il y a anguille sous roche

Answer 13

I smell a rat

Question 14

Vendre la mèche x2

Answer 14

To let the cat out of the bag

To spill the beans

Question 15

La vérité sort toujours

Answer 15

The truth will always come out

Question 16

Tourner autour du pot

Answer 16

To beat about the bush

Question 17

Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué

Answer 17

Do not count your chickens before they’re hatched

Question 18

L’habit ne fait pas le moine

Answer 18

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Question 19

Dire des vacheries

Answer 19

To make nasty remarks

Question 20

Quand les poules auront des dents

Answer 20

Pigs might fly

Question 21

Quoi qu’il arrive / quoi qu’il advienne

Answer 21

Come what may

Question 22

Tu me fais marcher (faire marche qqn)

Answer 22

You’re pulling my leg (to pull someone’s leg)

Question 23

Nier les nouvelles

Answer 23

To deny the news

Question 24

Confirmer les nouvelles

Answer 24

To confirm the news

Question 25

Un canular / une farce

Answer 25

A hoax

Question 26

Faire des excuses à quelqu’un pour qqch

Answer 26

To apologise (UK)
To apologize (USA)...
...to somebody for something / for doing something