Question

Where there's Smoke, there's Fire there is always a basis for a rumor, no matter how untrue it appears; suspicious things usually mean that something is wrong

Accepted Answer

Kelly bought a new can of spray paint the day the graffiti appeared. She must have done it. Where there's smoke , there's fire. In some form or other, this expression has been around since at least 43 b.c., and started getting popular in the mid-1500s. There can never be a fire without some smoke. In this metaphorical saying, the smoke represents the suspicious clues to some wrongdoing and the fire is the dirty deed itself. So when there's evidence that something bad happened, it probably did.

Idiom	Where there's Smoke, there's Fire
Example	Kelly bought a new can of spray paint the day the graffiti appeared. She must have done it. Where there's smoke , there's fire.
Meaning	there is always a basis for a rumor, no matter how untrue it appears; suspicious things usually mean that something is wrong
Origin	In some form or other, this expression has been around since at least 43 b.c., and started getting popular in the mid-1500s. There can never be a fire without some smoke. In this metaphorical saying, the smoke represents the suspicious clues to some wrongdoing and the fire is the dirty deed itself. So when there's evidence that something bad happened, it probably did.

Fire Smoke Suspicious Kelly Bought Spray Paint Day