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.
