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parrot-house
A building in a zoological garden in which parrots are kept; freq. in transf. or fig. use esp. with reference to loud or raucous noise.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. I. ii. xv. 251 Our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. 1923H. C. Bailey Mr Fortune's Practice vii. 186 It is an old-fashioned orphanage..as noisy as the parrot house. 1929J. Buchan Courts of Morning i. 35 Yanqui youth..is chronically alcoholic and amorous, and its manners are a brilliant copy of the parrot-house. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. i. 216 The parrot-house fever of my wife's party. 1959Times 2 Mar. 3/3 Without Mias to coordinate them, there was the tell-tale, parrothouse chatter of half a dozen leaders. 1967‘S. Woods’ And shame Devil 126 A clamour in many ways reminiscent of the Parrot House at the Zoo. 1977‘M. Underwood’ Murder with Malice xxiii. 209 The courtroom became a parrot-house of chatter as people pushed towards the exits. |