When I got to work this morning, everyone was talking about one thing – that our head of department had quit his job and was leaving the company at the end of the month. But when he arrived at the office he explained that he was simply taking a month off to travel. It seems that there had been some Chinese whispers (stille Post) going on over the weekend!
More popular in the UK than the US, this saying derives from the name of a party game where whispered messages are passed around until a version – totally different to the original message – comes back to the starting person.