parrot-fashion
Britishadverb
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And never to repeat, parrot-fashion, anything I am told by anyone posing as a figure of authority.
From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 2010
His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
His sermons are long and formal; he learns them by heart and repeats them parrot-fashion, taking care to look, not into the faces of his people, but at a certain nail in the opposite wall.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham
On this account, and to ascertain whether the child merely performed parrot-fashion, the company were especially anxious to hear the forbidden reading.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
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