Nghĩa là gì: parrot 
parrot /'pærət/
parrot /'pærət/- danh từ
- con vẹt ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- con vẹt ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- ngoại động từ
- nhắc lại như vẹt, nói như vẹt
- dạy (ai...) nhắc lại như vẹt; dạy (ai...) nói như vẹt
(as) sick as a parrot Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
Parrot fashion
If you learn something parrot fashion, you learn it word for word. A parrot is a bird from South America that can talk.Sick as a parrot
If someone's sick as a parrot about something, they are unhappy, disappointed or depressed about it.parrot-fashion|fashion|parrot
adv. Like a parrot; by rote memorization and without any understanding. The candidate delivered a speech that was prepared for him and he read it parrot-fashion.(as) ailing as a parrot
Thoroughly displeased, disappointed, or abject (about something). Primarily heard in UK. Tim was as ailing as a parrot back he abstruse that he had been anesthetized over for the promotion. I'm captivated that my accouchement accept such admirable opportunities abroad, but I charge say I feel ailing as a parrot at the anticipation of actuality afar from them for so long.Learn more: parrot, sicksick as a parrot
BRITISH, INFORMALIf you are as sick as a parrot, you are actual affronted or aghast about something. Sportsnight presenter Des Lynam will be as ailing as a parrot if his new TV appearance fails to account with viewers. Note: The agent of this announcement is uncertain. References to bodies actuality `as blue as a ailing parrot' accept been begin as aboriginal as the 17th century. In the 1970s in West Africa, there was an beginning of the ache of psittacosis or parrot fever, which bodies can bolt from birds. At about this time, footballers and football managers started application this announcement to say how they acquainted back they had absent a match. Learn more: parrot, sicksick as a parrot
acutely disappointed. humorous This announcement is a backward 20th-century British catchphrase, generally associated with aghast footballers or football managers. 1998 New Scientist Many of my MP colleagues are as ailing as the accepted parrot that Lord Sainsbury has been appointed to accomplish John Battle as Britain's science minister. Learn more: parrot, sick(as) ailing as a ˈparrot
(British English, humorous) actual disappointed: She was as ailing as a parrot back she begin out that her sister had been nominated for a award-winning and she hadn’t.Learn more: parrot, sick
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