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parrot-fashion

adverb

  1. informal.
    without regard for meaning; by rote

    she learned it parrot-fashion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He took it promptly, and proceeded to crack and munch it in regular parrot fashion.

Miss Sawyer had always told them to learn the odes understandingly, not in parrot fashion.

He repeated the words parrot fashion and his feet obeyed the instructions automatically.

This phrase proceeded from Tom, who kept on repeating it, parrot-fashion—an exact imitation, but with no idea of its meaning.

Anything convincing or appealing about it had gone long ago—Toddles said it parrot-fashion now.

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