Office Gossip in Spain
Swap gossip by the coffee machine, react to rumours and keep secrets the Spanish way.
Office gossip in Spain happens by the coffee machine or over the morning break, and it comes with its own idioms: 'dicen las malas lenguas', 'soy una tumba', 'cuando el río suena, agua lleva'. Fake rumours are called 'bulos'. The cards follow two colleagues in a Barcelona office as a rumour about a colleague spreads, blows up and turns out to be wrong.
- 1
¿Te has enterado de lo que ha pasado?
Have you heard what happened?
- 2
¡No! ¿Qué ha pasado? Cuéntamelo todo.
No! What happened? Tell me everything.
- 3
Dicen las malas lenguas que están liados.
Rumour has it they're seeing each other.
- 4
Eso lo sé de buena tinta.
I have that on good authority.
- 5
Eso ya es un secreto a voces.
It's already an open secret.
- 6
Esto queda entre nosotros.
This stays between us.
- 7
Soy una tumba.
My lips are sealed.
- 8
Hablando del rey de Roma...
Speak of the devil...
- 9
Se ha ido de la lengua.
He let it slip.
- 10
Ha corrido como la pólvora.
It spread like wildfire.
- 11
Se montó un pollo tremendo.
There was a massive row.
- 12
Me quedé de piedra.
I was gobsmacked.
- 13
No tiene pelos en la lengua.
She doesn't mince her words.
- 14
Eso es un bulo.
That's a load of rubbish - it's a hoax.
- 15
Va diciendo por ahí que lo van a echar.
He's going around saying they're going to fire him.
- 16
¡No seas tan cotilla!
Don't be such a busybody!
- 17
Yo no te he dicho nada.
You didn't hear it from me.
- 18
Cuando el río suena, agua lleva.
There's no smoke without fire.
- 19
No te creas todo lo que oyes.
Don't believe everything you hear.
- 20
¡No me digas! ¡Venga ya!
No way! You're kidding!