Idiom
jungle telegraph
Meaning
A system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The news spread quickly through the jungle telegraph.”
“Before modern technology arrived, the villagers relied on the jungle telegraph to send urgent messages between distant settlements.”
“The explorers were amazed to discover that news of their arrival had preceded them, carried across the vast, dense forest by the rhythmic pulses of the jungle telegraph.”
Examples
simple
“The news spread quickly through the jungle telegraph.”
contextual
“Before modern technology arrived, the villagers relied on the jungle telegraph to send urgent messages between distant settlements.”
complex
“The explorers were amazed to discover that news of their arrival had preceded them, carried across the vast, dense forest by the rhythmic pulses of the jungle telegraph.”
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