mumbo jumbo
胡说八道,胡言乱语,糊涂虫,莫须有的罪名
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plural mum·bo jum·bos.
- : meaningless incantation or ritual.
- : senseless or pretentious language, usually designed to obscure an issue, confuse a listener, or the like.
- : an object of superstitious awe or reverence.
- : the guardian of western Sudan villages symbolized by a masked man who combats evil and punishes women for breaches of tribal laws.
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Examples
As the driver bios appeared on the jumbo screen, I flashed a toothy grin after noticing that two of them were women.
Please go to BobQ2014.com for details and all that attorney mumbo-jumbo.
They're always trying to upsell you on that jumbo popcorn bucket at the movies.
This was appropriate because just like her jumbo soda, her twenty minute speech was filled with empty calories.
It's really twisted and sick mumbo-jumbo to try to pass this off as part of God's plan.
He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!
Had his legs been longer, Fred Greenwood would have pronounced him the equal of Jumbo himself.
Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo?
Me Jumbo—come to lay breakfast, and cappen say you hab what you like ask for, especially someting nice for de young lady.
They kept up the jumbo sail, as the main jib is called; they reefed the foresail down to its smallest compass.