British & Australian

if you learn something parrot-fashion, you are able to repeat the words, but you do not understand their meaning.

When I went to Sunday school, we had to recite passages from the Bible parrot-fashion.

• haul someone over the coals
• haul up by bootstraps
• haul up by your bootstraps
• haul yourself up by bootstraps
• haul yourself up by your bootstraps
• have a bad hair day
• have a bad name
• have a ball
• have a bash
• have a bean
• have a beef with
• have a beef with someone
• have a beef with something
• have a bee in bonnet
• have a bee in your bonnet
• have a blast
• have a bone to pick with
• have a bone to pick with someone
• have a bun in the oven
• have a card up sleeve
• have a card up your sleeve
• have a care in the world
• have a cat in hell's chance
• have a chance in hell
• have a charmed life