jungle drums

English

Noun

jungle drums pl (plural only)

1. Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional pre-industrial societies.
2. An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine.
   • 2020, Fiona Erskine, The Chemical Reaction:

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

   • 1998, Lorne Foster, Turnstile Immigration: Multiculturalism, Social Order & Social Justice in Canada, page 27:

     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.