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Idiom origins are the apple of my eye (13 Photos)
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“Heard it through the grapevine”
When telegraph stations started cropping up all over North America, operators quickly found that the wires were often messy and twisted, somewhat like a grapevine. Soon enough, the term “I heard it through the grapevine” started making its rounds, and it became a common idiom that we still hear today.
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