English Explanatory Dictionary

parrot and monkey time

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A period of quarrelling.

Word forms

parrot and monkey time

Etymology

First appears c. 1882 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Obsolete since c. 1920.

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