拾人牙慧

shírényáhuì
  1. to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own
  2. to parrot

CEDICT

to plagiarize another’s opinion

Wiktionary

牙慧，言談間流露出的智慧。語本南朝宋．劉義慶《世說新語．文學》：「殷中軍云：『康伯未得我牙後慧。』」比喻蹈襲他人的言論或主張。清．袁枚〈寄奇方伯書〉：「大概著書立說最怕雷同，拾人牙慧。賦詩作文，都是自寫胸襟。」

重編國語辭典

比喻蹈襲他人的言論或主張，當作自己的觀點或看法。

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 拾 shí
  1. to pick up
  2. to collate or arrange
  3. ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
3 牙慧 yáhuì
  1. repetition
  2. other person's opinion
  3. hearsay
  4. parroting

Related entries

鸚鵡學舌 yīngwǔxuéshé
  1. to parrot
  2. to repeat uncritically what sb says
應聲 yìngshēng
  1. an answering voice
  2. to answer a voice
  3. to respond
  4. to copy a voice
  5. to parrot