parrot and monkey time

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period of quarrelling. US,no-plural,obsolete
    — The esteemed Presbyterians of South Carolina have been having a real parrot and monkey time over evolution, with the result that after a year of charge and counter charge, the evolutionary wing of the society is ahead[…]

词源

First appears c. 1882 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Obsolete since c. 1920.
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