parrot and monkey time
English
Noun
parrot and monkey time (plural not attested)
- (archaic) A period of quarrelling.
- 1888, Life (volume 12, page 240)
- 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 […]
- 1894, Sheldon Jackson, Report on Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska
- 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 […]
- 1888, Life (volume 12, page 240)