grapevine telegraph
葡萄藤电报,葡萄藤电讯报,葡萄藤电报社,葡萄藤电讯
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- : a vine that bears grapes.
- : Also called grapevine telegraph. a person-to-person method of spreading rumors, gossip, information, etc., by informal or unofficial conversation, letter writing, or the like.
- : a private or secret source of information.
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At the winery, we had a full hookup for the RV on a gravel lot next to the grapevines.
Even there, Oliver May, the manager of Discovery Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills, says that while growers tend to prefer hot years, there’s a limit to what any grapevines can take.
Cell phones and online journals are a way for hikers to communicate, but old-fashioned notebook communal-trail registers found in shelters remain an important part of the hiker grapevine.
Sometimes I find out through the grapevine that she made plans with other friends.
The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.
Prince Harry has heard on the grapevine that UK pop star Cheryl Cole has a crush on him - and finds it pretty funny.
Every Afghan will know, through radio and the grapevine, the news that Americans burned the Quran.
“I had heard that just from the grapevine so I went and asked her,” Morgan recalls.
So over the past four or five years, the censorship strategy shifted from memos to an “official grapevine” type of operation.
We had eaten our supper and were seated on the ground, under a high, branching tree into which was trained a huge grapevine.
We briskly project ourselves to and fro in a swing of Nature's own contriving, namely, the tendrils of the wild grapevine.
We need another axeman to clear away the fallen trees and break the nets of grapevine.
A corpse was bound to it by a binding of grapevine and the two ends of the stretcher rested upon the shoulders of the bearers.
The various applications recommended in this work for the destruction of insects, are useful on the grapevine.