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rumble-bumble (uncountable)

1. (dated) Blather; worthless talk or ideas.
   • 1927, Canadian Bookman (volumes 9-10, page 265)

     How pleasant it is to turn from all the rumble-bumble about a great man to the great man himself, and this is especially the case with Thomas Hardy. It is like turning from the department-store counter where they sell rose-water, passing through a door and suddenly finding oneself amid the silence, the brooding immensity, the unchangeable, untameable wildness of Egdon Heath.

   • 1945, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language (page 102)

     Of late the professors of semantics have divided into two factions. The first, led by metaphysicians, lifts the elemental business of communicating ideas to the level of a baffling and somewhat sinister arcanum standing midway between the geometry of the fourth dimension and the Freudian rumble-bumble; the other, led by popularizers, converts it into a club for use upon the skulls of enemies of the current New Deals.