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Chinese whispers
01
a game where a message is passed secretly and rapidly from one person to another, often resulting in the message being distorted or changed unintentionally as it travels through the chain of participants
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
Chinese whispers
1.1
a situation where a message gets passed from one person to another, but it often gets changed along the way
Dialect
British
British
Examples
The news article started as a straightforward report, but by the time it reached the third publication, it had turned into a classic case of Chinese whispers with inaccuracies and exaggerations.
