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sing a different tune en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic, informal) To hold a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.
    • Miss Maudie said Miss Stephanie’d be singing a different tune if Tim Johnson was still coming up the street, that they’d find out soon enough, they’d send his head to Montgomery. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
    • "[…] Wait until you've walked a mile in their snowshoes...literally. You might be singing a different tune by then." 2016, Erica Vetsch, His Prairie Sweetheart:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
singing a different tune Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sung a different tune Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sings a different tune Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sang a different tune Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

sing the same tune

Translations (5)

ru запе́ть по-друго́му (Translations) · pl śpiewać z innego klucza (Translations) · ru заговори́ть по-друго́му (Translations) · fr changer de refrain (Translations) · fi olla eri ääni kellossa (Translations)