parrot-fashion

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adverb

(BrE, disapproving) if sb learns or repeats sth parrot-fashion, they do it without thinking about it or understanding what it means

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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parrot-fashionEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus parrot-fashionEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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parrot-fashion