the bush telegraph

(British & Australian)

the way in which people quickly pass important information to other people, especially by talking News of the redundancies spread immediately on the bush telegraph.

See beat about the bush

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gavril	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian
Rodger	['rɔdʒə]
Retha	-	Southern African, Afrikaans, English
Kenrick	KEN-rik	English (Rare)
Eufemia	e-oo-FE-myah (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
Marlis	-	German