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no smoke without fire

no smoke without fire proverb: gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.

Proverb

no smoke without fire

  1. Gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.

no smoke without fire meaning in Bengali, Kannada, Arabic and Thai

no smoke without fire in Bengali

gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact
অকারণে কিছুই ঘটে না okarone kichui ghoṭe na

no smoke without fire in Kannada

ಬುಡವಿಲ್ಲದೆ ವದಂತಿ ಹುಟ್ಟದ್ದು, ವಹ್ನಿಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಧೂಮವಿರದು, ಬೆಂಕಿಯಿಲ್ಲದೆ ಹೊಗೆಯಿರದು

no smoke without fire in Arabic

gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact
لاَ دُخَانَ بِلاَ نَارٍ

no smoke without fire in Thai

gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact
ไม่มีมูลฝอยหมาไม่ขี้ mâi-mii-muun-fɔ̌i-mǎa-mâi-kîi, ไม่มีมูลหมาไม่ขี้ mâi-mii-muun-mǎa-mâi-kîi
More languagesFewer languages
no smoke without fire in Vietnamese
không có lửa làm sao có khói

Forms of no smoke without fire

alternative formthere's no smoke without fire
alternative formwhere there's smoke, there's fire

Questions about no smoke without fire

What does no smoke without fire mean?
No smoke without fire means gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.
What is no smoke without fire in Bengali?
No smoke without fire in Bengali is অকারণে কিছুই ঘটে না (okarone kichui ghoṭe na). See No smoke without fire meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is no smoke without fire?
No smoke without fire is a proverb.

Words near no smoke without fire in the dictionary

  1. no skin off one's nose
  2. no skin off one's teeth
  3. no sleep for the wicked
  4. no small feat
  5. no small thing
  6. no smoke without fire
  7. no smoking
  8. no soap
  9. no sooner said than done
  10. no sooner than
  11. no soup for you

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no smoke without fire (page history and authors); no smoke without fire (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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