parrot cry
nounEtymology From the tendency of parrots to repeat words they have heard.
1
A shout which is mindlessly or mechanically repeated.
- Michael Portillo as shadow chancellor will immediately leap up with the parrot-cry: "Labour always increases taxes and often invents new ones".2001 August 6, Roy Hattersley, The Guardian:
- Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 265: