יָצָא קוֹל בָּעִיר, יָצָא קוֹל הֲבָרָה בָּעִיר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

A rumor went out in the city

הגדרה (אנגלית)

It became public in the city. Figuratively: information or a rumor spread among many people (havara means rumor).

("And not even now has a rumor spread in the city, as it is written, 'and he did not go out to the inner court of the city'" — Otzar HaMidrashim (Aizenshtein), Yeshuah, 248; and likewise: "God hastened to inform of his recovery before a rumor went out in the city that death had been decreed against him, as stated in the Yerushalmi" — Rashi on 2 Kings 20:4; and likewise: "And yet a rumor went out in the city, that we are driving away mice. Our neighbor Passey is the one who caused this" — Shalom Aleichem, How to Drive Away Mice, Pach).