Meaning of parrot and monkey time | Babel Free

Definitions

A period of quarrelling.

US, no-plural, obsolete

Examples

“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[…]”

“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[…]”

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