the story goes

English

Phrase

the story goes

The story is usually depicted as follows.
The story goes that they won the day.
- 1978 April 8, Robert Chesley, “The Cat Burglar Returns”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
  James Kirkwood's play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! opened nearly three years ago on Broadway, and, so the story goes, was promptly killed by critics — presumably because of its gay material.

Translations

Translations

French: on dit (fr) (que…), il parait (fr) (que…)
Spanish: va de cuento

See also

rumour has it

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