little bird told one, a



little bird told one, a

A source one cannot or will not identify gave this information, as in How did you learn they were getting a divorce?-Oh, a little bird told me. Versions of this idiom date from ancient times and appear in numerous proverb collections.
See also: bird, little, told

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Angelus-Late Roman
NurNOOR (Arabic)Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur, Indonesian, Malay
Elmore['elmɔ:]
DariyaDAH-ree-yahUkrainian
Ilyaeel-YAHRussian
Yudel-Yiddish