"parrot cry" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the tendency of parrots to repeat words they have heard.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parrot cries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parrot cry (plural parrot cries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August 6, Roy Hattersley, The Guardian",
          "text": "Michael Portillo as shadow chancellor will immediately leap up with the parrot-cry: \"Labour always increases taxes and often invents new ones\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 265",
          "text": "Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shout which is mindlessly or mechanically repeated."
      ],
      "id": "en-parrot_cry-en-noun-uOK1-qHr",
      "links": [
        [
          "mindlessly",
          "mindlessly"
        ],
        [
          "mechanically",
          "mechanically"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parrot cry"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the tendency of parrots to repeat words they have heard.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parrot cries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parrot cry (plural parrot cries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001 August 6, Roy Hattersley, The Guardian",
          "text": "Michael Portillo as shadow chancellor will immediately leap up with the parrot-cry: \"Labour always increases taxes and often invents new ones\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 265",
          "text": "Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shout which is mindlessly or mechanically repeated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mindlessly",
          "mindlessly"
        ],
        [
          "mechanically",
          "mechanically"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parrot cry"
}