人云亦云

rén yún yì yún

to repeat whatever others say; to parrot

Character by character

人rén
others

云yún
say

亦yì
also

云yún
say

看新闻要有自己的判断，不能人云亦云。

Read the news with your own judgement; don’t just parrot what others say.

Tone: negative (criticism).

云 is classical for “to say”. Its everyday cousin is 跟风.

Learn this in Lesson 110 · HSK 7–9: 信息从哪儿来 (Where the news comes from)

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