to repeat parrot-fashion

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• parrot-fashion — also parrot fashion ADV: ADV after v If you learn or repeat something parrot fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means. [BRIT] Under the old system pupils often had to stand to attention and repeat lessons… …   English dictionary

• parrot-fashion — adv by rote, mechanically, mindlessly, unthinkingly, automatically * * * ▶ adverb MECHANICALLY, by rote, mindlessly, automatically. * * * parrˈot fashion adverb By rote • • • Main Entry: ↑parrot * * * parrot fashion UK US adverb british copying… …   Useful english dictionary

• parrot-fashion — British & Australian if you learn something parrot fashion, you are able to repeat the words, but you do not understand their meaning. When I went to Sunday school, we had to recite passages from the Bible parrot fashion …   New idioms dictionary

• parrot — par|rot1 [ˈpærət] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from Old French perroquet] 1.) a tropical bird with a curved beak and brightly coloured feathers that can be taught to copy human speech 2.) parrot fashion BrE if you learn something parrot… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• parrot — 1 noun (C) 1 a tropical bird with a curved beak and brightly coloured feathers that can be taught to copy human speech 2 parrot fashion BrE repeating what someone has just said without understanding it: reciting poems parrot fashion see also:… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• parrot — /ˈpærət / (say paruht) noun 1. any of numerous hook billed, fleshy tongued, often brightly coloured birds which constitute the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lorikeet, lovebird, macaw, parakeet, rosella, etc., especially those of the… …  

• parrot — n. & v. n. 1 any of various mainly tropical birds of the order Psittaciformes, with a short hooked bill, often having vivid plumage and able to mimic the human voice. 2 a person who mechanically repeats the words or actions of another. v.tr.… …   Useful english dictionary

• Parrot — Taxobox name = Parrots fossil range = fossil range|54|0Early Eocene – Recent image width = 240px image caption = Peach fronted Parakeets Aratinga aurea regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves infraclassis = Neognathae ordo =… …   Wikipedia

• parrot — parrotlike, adj. parroty, adj. /par euht/, n. 1. any of numerous hook billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets. 2. a… …   Universalium

• Stylistics (linguistics) — Stylistics is the study of varieties of language whose properties position that language in . For example, the language of advertising, politics, religion, individual authors, etc., or the language of a period in time, all are used distinctively… …   Wikipedia

• e=mc^2\ trump\ card — When a lame TV show or cartoon wants to show that someone is intelligent, it will play the e=mc^2 trump card. That is, have that character repeat the famous equation parrot fashion with no thought to context. I can t believe Tiny Toons Adventures …   Dictionary of american slang