repeat the words of others like a parrot
Parrot learn to talk, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī NGW ǔ Xu é sh é, meaning parrot learn to speak. It means that he will follow what others say. It comes from the Song Dynasty's shidaoyuan biography of lanterns in Jingde.
The origin of Idioms
Song Shidao's original "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu" Volume 28: "if parrots only learn from people's words, it's not satisfactory. It is not allowed to recite the meaning of Buddhism, because it is a language learner
Idiom usage
It refers to the following
repeat the words of others like a parrot
enjoy both felicity and longevity - fú shòu shuāng quán
track down sb. by following clues - shùn téng mō guā