火ひのない所ところに煙けむりは立たたぬ

expression

there's no smoke without fire

Proverb meaning that rumors or suspicions usually have some basis in fact.

• 彼かれが急きゅうに辞やめたのは、火ひのない所ところに煙けむりは立たたぬで、何なにかあったに違ちがいない。

  He suddenly quit; where there's smoke, there's fire—something must have happened.