talk of the town, the

Idioms  

1. A subject of considerable gossip, as in Turning up drunk at the debutante ball will certainly make you the talk of the town. Already mentioned in two Latin sources, this expression surfaced in English in the mid-1600s.

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Example Sentences

The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the talk of the town, the pride of the market-place, Lorne Murchison's having been selected to accompany what was known as the Cruickshank deputation to England.

From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Curiously enough he was more shocked at finding himself, as it were, the talk of the town, the central figure of a great newspaper sensation.

From From Whose Bourne by Barr, Robert

"It's the talk of the town the way you men play cards."

From Half a Rogue by MacGrath, Harold

She was the talk of the town, the heroine of the newest divorce case.

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George