just-so story

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Etymology [edit]

From Rudyard Kipling's book of such stories, entitled Just So Stories, 1902.

Noun [edit]

just-so story (plural just-so stories)

  1. (anthropology, social sciences, literature) A story that cannot be proven or disproven, used as an explanation of a current state of affairs.
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