parrot cry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shout which is mindlessly or mechanically repeated.
    — Michael Portillo as shadow chancellor will immediately leap up with the parrot-cry: "Labour always increases taxes and often invents new ones".

词形变化

parrot cries plural

词源

From the tendency of parrots to repeat words they have heard.
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