Meaning of jungle drums | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional pre-industrial societies.
   plural, plural-only
2. An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“Durham was only thirty miles from Middlesbrough, but clearly isolated from the jungle drums of Teesside gossip.”

“The word was out, the jungle drums were thumping, and I was beseeched by the glazed and mahogany masses for whom Canada is not simply a heterogeneous and upscaled lifestyle but an entirely new sense of possibilities.”

CEFR level