dance to another tune

1. Change one's manner, behavior, or attitude. For example, He'll be dancing to another tune when he finds out that the board means business. Also see change one's tune.

Example Sentences

"They'd dance to another tune if the boilers were suddenly to burst, or if the ship ran foul of a rock."

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Peering into the gray smother of sea and sky, Captain Jonathan Wellsby licked his lips hungrily as he said to himself: "Not now, but if the storm abates and we float through the night, these lousy picaroons shall dance to another tune."

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“What I want to know is, is the piper to be paid, or shall we have to dance to another tune by way of reprisal.”

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The young person is a retainer of the Countess-Dowager of Derby, so please your Majesty," said Peveril, in a low tone of voice; "and I am——" "Hold, hold," said the King; "this is a dance to another tune, and not fit for a place so public.

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Or he'll perhaps come and give you one or two in the ribs; then you'll dance to another tune!

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