Fruity metaphor for a rumor mill

Usage examples of grapevine.

Now the hospital grapevine would conclude that he intended to take a wife, and who better than Claribel Brown, who was a nice girl anyway?

At a respectful distance stood a sizeable crowd of somber and ragged citizens from the town, summoned by whatever served as a grapevine in that grapeless land.

North Rim of the Grand Canyon or the slopes of Denali in summer, crossing the Salt River or the Scablands, coming into Zion from the east, dropping into Panamint Valley from the west, rolling down the Phantom Canyon behind Pikes Peak, winding down Grapevine Canyon into Death Valley .

If he had, Jeffrey would have thought reports of such bizarre reactions would have filtered through the grapevine.

Rodney controlled the grapevine rumors and gossip and knew more about OPD lawyers and their caseloads than Glenda, the Director.

Tomorrow he would have Elvira, who could do more tricks with a six-inch dick than a monkey could with a hundred foot of grapevine, then he would heal and a new outsider would come through and they would train together and then they would mate in blood and sweat in the depths of the pit.

The graceful and fantastic grapevine is a feature of great beauty, and its wandering festoons bear no more resemblance to our well-trained vines, than our stunted azalias, and tiny magnolias, to their thriving American kindred.

Palestine, was smeared on the woody parts of grapevines to prevent the growth of smuts and moulds.

Here were low terraced hills planted to grapevines and a scrubby tree Paks had never seen before.

On the slopes, grapevines had sprouted tufts of furry greenish-white leaflets.

Avelyn images of the rolling hills, the wheatfields, and grapevines of Youmaneff.

She saw nothing of James, and heard on the grapevine that Clarissa had been flown to see a specialist in America who ran a clinic that had a spectacular record of success with her particular type of problem.

That was the extent of Corky Gonzales' involvement in the Salazar incident, and at a glance it seems hardly worth mentioning -- except for a rumor on the Los Angeles lawyers' grapevine that the robbery charge was only a ruse, a necessary holding action, to set Gonzales up for a "Chicano Seven" conspiracy bust -- charging that he came from Denver to Los Angeles with the intention of causing a riot.

Choked by briers and grapevines, blocked by sliding stones and earth, it rose and rose through the heat and burden of the day until it lost itself in the open heights.

Marlene's friends from overseas had heard about it… bullshit traveled all the way from South America to LA by the grapevine.