#English #英語フレーズ "A little bird told me." 内部から秘密を明かした。A cute phrase for having some kind of "secret informant" tell you something. The modern journalism equivalent is "an anonymous source", but the expression can be used for gossip, not just pro news.
Of course sometimes the person using this phrase *is* the secret informant, but chooses to imply someone *else* divulged the secret... that can happen too.
From Shakespeare.
Henry IV, Part 2:
As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,
Whose musick, to my thinking, pleas’d the king.
This is believed to be a passing reference to "a little bird told me", but it's interesting to me regardless.
Henry IV, Part 2:
As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,
Whose musick, to my thinking, pleas’d the king.
This is believed to be a passing reference to "a little bird told me", but it's interesting to me regardless.
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