Idiom
mukluk telegraph
Meaning
The spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The mukluk telegraph says the storm is coming tonight.”
“Word travels fast in this village because the mukluk telegraph is always active.”
“Before the internet reached the remote settlement, the mukluk telegraph served as the primary, albeit often unreliable, source of local news.”
Examples
simple
“The mukluk telegraph says the storm is coming tonight.”
contextual
“Word travels fast in this village because the mukluk telegraph is always active.”
complex
“Before the internet reached the remote settlement, the mukluk telegraph served as the primary, albeit often unreliable, source of local news.”
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