| His delivery was pretty much parrot-fashion, rather in the nature of replacement window salesmen. |
| Officials repeated parrot-fashion to us that it wasn't possible to predict but we couldn't believe they were saying it. |
| He failed the tests because he could only recite the lessons parrot-fashion. |
| Because you can parrot-fashion learn things but when you see them in an exam question that twists it slightly…then you panic. |
| The lyrics, which were daft enough in the first place, have been learned parrot-fashion, and thereby have been rendered even sillier than they were originally. |
| People who have never even seen a Shakespeare play come up to me and repeat, parrot-fashion, the anecdote of his pre-eminence. |
