no smoke without fire, there's

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there's no smoke without fire

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, where there's smoke there's fire . A suspicion or rumor usually has a basis in fact, as in When the sales figures continued strong but the company still wasn't making money, he suspected something was wrong—there's no smoke without fire . First stated in the late 1300s, this expression appeared in numerous proverb collections from 1546 on and remains current today.