You feel honored and excited. You are one of the special few to get this information. You cannot wait. You must quickly find other ears to pour the information into. And so, the information - secret as it is – begins to spread. Nobody knows how far.你感到荣幸和兴奋.你是为数不多的知情者之一.你迫不及待,必须赶紧把这消息告诉他人.这样,这个消息 - 作为秘密开始传播延.没人知道它传了多远.
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the expresstion "by the grapevine" is more than 100 years old, the American inventer Sanmio F Mose is largerly responsible for the birth of the expresstion.Among others,he expriment with the idea of terrilafy.Sending messages over a while by electricity.