everybody knows everybody
No strangers here
A phrase describing a small, tight-knit community where social connections overlap extensively and information travels quickly.
It typically characterizes rural areas, small towns, or insular social circles: In a village like this, everybody knows everybody.
The implication is often that privacy is limited and reputations matter—what you do will get around.
- small townModest rural settlement
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- tight-knitClosely and firmly united
- neighborsThose dwelling nearby
- familiar facesPeople already known to you
grapevine · local · community · rumor mill · fishbowl · nosy · Main Street · local watering hole · village · acquaintances · close-knit · insider · regulars · interconnected · mutual friends · network · reputation · hometown
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
everybody knows everybodyanonymous
Of unknown origin
faceless crowd · complete strangers · anonymity · faceless · nameless
everybody knows everybodybig city
Large urban area
metropolis · urban sprawl · megalopolis · concrete jungle · New York City
everybody knows everybodysocial isolation
Lack of human contact
alienation · disconnected · mind your own business · impersonal · detached
everybody, knowingly, knowledge, knowledgeable, embodied, embody, embodiment, disembodied