parrot-fashion , also: parrot fashion
parrotwise

Try to understand material rather than memorise it parrot fashion.

It's probably something they could learn off parrot fashion, but doesn't have any actual meaning for them.

Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them.

Learning 'parrot fashion' is adequate in the very short-term but the effects do not last for long.

There are quite a few T commands, and they have to be learned parrot fashion, as nothing about them is ever written down by anyone, anywhere.

I've said this many times here when people quote parrot fashion the Macpherson report changed things.

Rufus was repeating sentences; Bert was copying them in parrot fashion.

"It's a real pain in the neck having to teach him his answers to questions, parrot fashion, all the time, just to get him through interviews."

He was using his observation and his understanding rather than learning his role 'parrot fashion'.)

Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways, we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today.

Bri was eager to learn but frustrated by the idea of learning the verbs 'parrot fashion' and tried, unsuccessfully, to find a way round this.

This line-up also featured on Greaves's second solo album, Parrot Fashions (1984).

Episode "Parrot Fashion" (1989)

It never sounded like a real little boy ... With Joe 90, I suggested finding a British kid and making him repeat the lines parrot fashion.

The biggest problem was getting them to be computer literate in the sense that they understand how something really works rather then just able to follow a taught process 'parrot fashion'.

The extent to which these young people were able to read and write, even when claiming that ability, was often limited to stringing together a few simple words - the Lord's Prayer might be learned "parrot fashion".

We have moved away from daily table chanting and spelling tests, when the mastery of English involved little more than fitting appropriate words into gaps in simple sentences, when reading was learned parrot fashion from a primer.

Rote learning is sometimes disparaged with the derogative terms parrot fashion, regurgitation, cramming, or mugging because one who engages in rote learning may give the wrong impression of having understood what they have written or said.

Then he used the first cultivated, literate phrase Wexford had ever heard from his lips but, even as he said it, the chief inspector knew he had learnt it parrot fashion from the 'scene' with which he had been associated.