One Idiom One Day: Mumbo jumbo
She is just a kid, most of what she says is mumbo jumbo.
Something that does not make sense; a religious ritual that is outdated and/or considered frivolous.
In the year 1738, a writer called Francis Moore used this expression in the publication titled ‘Travels into the inland parts of Africa’. It was not used in the sense that it is used today back then. In 1858, ‘The Saturday Review’ published it to mean what it stands for in the current years. The origination of the phrase comes from a masked dancer in religious functions called “Maamajomboo”. The exact phrase was also the name of a West African God.
E.g., I do not believe in this mumbo jumbo; human life should be valued far more than some ritual that one is not willing to forego.
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