at third hand

Remember that our report of the incident comes only at third hand.

No evidence, just a bit of hearsay, a story at third hand.

All that happened I derived only at third hand.

He'd never had a single contact with anyone even connected at third hand with Tehran.

We only felt Black Ransome's effect at third hand.

Especially at third hand, or fifth.

Minute by minute, throughout the afternoon, the cryptanalysts followed, at third hand, the progress of the chase two thousand miles away.

STORIES told at third hand don't often mesmerize a reader.

There a majority, sometimes real, sometimes pretended, captive itself, compels a captive king to issue as royal edicts, at third hand, the polluted nonsense of their most licentious and giddy coffeehouses.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

You believe Melisande Shahrizai is in La Serenissima, despite the fact that you received this information at third hand, obviously by her own devising, and no Serenissiman has laid eyes upon her."

I heard†and it was at third hand from a high-up policeman, so you can believe it or not as you like†that Rivera accepts the stuff, sells or exchanges it, takes a large commission, and banks the rest in Swiss accounts which he opens up for his clients.

The next published reference appeared in the Cork Mercantile Chronicle for 7 September 1804, in a communication from D. J. Murphy of Cork, who reports at third hand a story from James Wigmore that the original manuscripts of Junius had been found in Greatrakes's trunk.