Oliver bares his soul as he highlights comments in which he is compared to a parrot and knocked for mocking an unremarkable soda.
Finally the guy gets fed up and throws the parrot in the freezer to punish him.
There's the parrot, wings wrapped around himself, shivering.
Rudoren is a journalist for the New York Times and has a responsibility to evaluate rather than parrot.
With four other children, two more dogs, a parrot, and a cat back on the island, I was desperate to get home.
But I cal'late there was a parrot and monkey time among the help from then on.
This feller's got what ailed the parrot—he talks too darn much.
Polly was prattling like a parrot, but Glory was silent and almost sad.
In one of them there stood a golden cage, and in it was a parrot.
She was sorry to part with her parrot, but after all it was only a bird.
1520s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal Middle French perrot, from a variant of Pierre "Peter;" or perhaps a dialectal form of perroquet (see parakeet). Replaced earlier popinjay. The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.
"repeat without understanding," 1590s, from parrot (n.). Related: Parroted; parroting.
