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parrot-fashion

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parrot-fashion  (British & Australian)
if you learn something parrot-fashion, you are able to repeat the words, but you do not understand their meaning
Usage notes: A parrot is a bird that can repeat words and noises it has just heard.
When I went to Sunday school, we had to recite passages from the Bible parrot-fashion.


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BRITISH kids can't speak French because they merely learn sentences parrot-fashion, according to an expensive government report.
Relics are thorn in the side of religion by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
At the time I put it down to a parrot-fashion recital of his PR department's weekly Zeitgeist Briefing but having just seen the show on CBeebies, I realise he was telling the truth.
BADDIE POLLUTO-NY by The Mirror (London, England)
The same ad was repeated, parrot-fashion, in the next-but-one column.
off the Record by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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