| 单词 | parroty time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparroty time parroty time n. [probably after parrot and monkey time n. at parrot n.1 Compounds 5] colloquial (now rare) an argumentative time, a period of quarrelling or fighting. ΚΠ 1886 Daily News 12 Oct. 5/2 Leonard and the chairs have had what Leonard's gay countrymen call ‘a parroty time’, doubtless with reference to an..anecdote of a monkey and a parrot. 1890 A. Lang Old Friends (1892) 158 You will have a parroty time. 1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady iii. 42 However you look at it, I think you and your family are in for a pretty parroty time. < as lemmas |
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