SING A DIFFERENT TUNE
sing a different tune: translation
sing a different tune & sing another tune
Fig. to change one's manner, usually from bad to good. (Almost the same as
dance to another tune.) •
When she learned that I was a bank director, she began to sing a different tune.
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You will sing another tune as soon as you find out how right I am!
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or[whistle a different tune] also[sing a new tune] {v. phr.}, {informal} To talk or act in the opposite way; contradict something said before. * /Charles said that all smokers should be expelled from the team but he sang a different tune after the coach caught him smoking./ Syn.: CHANGE ONE'S TUNE, DANCE TO ANOTHER TUNE. Compare: LAUGH OUT OF THE OTHER SIDE OF ONE'S MOUTH.
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