parrot and monkey time
nounEtymology First appears c. 1882 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Obsolete since c. 1920.
- The esteemed Presbyterians of South Carolina have been having a real parrot and monkey time over evolution, with the result that after a year of charge and counter charge, the evolutionary wing of the society is ahead[…]1888, Life, volume 12, page 240:
- If he is inclined to be frisky, however, and they both take it into their heads to run there is generally a parrot and monkey time of it[…]1894, Sheldon Jackson, Report on Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska: