People close to the buyers maintained that Pepperell's conditions were "legal mumbo-jumbo" to satisfy the lawyers and that "there's no question in anyone's mind that Odyssey has the money."

You would have thought I was trying to steal you with legal mumbo-jumbo, but Lara pointed out that it was for your safety and Cally's.

--there's no need for any of us to wade through any legal mumbo-jumbo.

Mr. Gritz described a day of "verbal judo" involving the "legal mumbo-jumbo" of the Freemen.

While every family has been consumed by "the whole legal mumbo-jumbo," as one widow put it, many fiancées and domestic partners are still battling for benefits.

In recent years, Mr. Schumer said, brand-name drug companies have used "frivolous patents, lawsuits and legal mumbo-jumbo" to delay the marketing of generic drugs.

Juries like to sink their teeth into an issue, not interpret the meaning of some pile of legal mumbo-jumbo.

"Rafik, is there some legal mumbo-jumbo in the reorganization that could possibly make it look like we had been leasing the ship from them?"

But unless you want to go through piles of legal mumbo-jumbo, you're going to have to trust someone eventually.