VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Dance to Someone’s Tune

Meaning:

Consistently follow someone’s directions or influence

Examples:

  • I have always been a bit of a free spirit. I dance to my own tune.
  • Supermarkets buy meat at the lowest price and farmers have been forced to dance to their tune.
  • In order to keep the peace Peter has to dance to his wife’s tune.
  • I have no intention of making Jake's curfew later, but he is trying his hardest to get me to dance to his tune!
  • I hope that being arrested will make drunk drivers dance to a different tune.
  • I'm not big on animals, but Ella is, so I danced to her tune and accompanied her to the dog show.
  • Powerful businessman seem to have the district officials dancing to their tune.
  • They control all the funding so we have to dance to their tune.
  • My sister wants us to all go on holiday together. I am not going to dance to her tune.
  • She had to stay on her best behaviour and dance to his tune.
  • I will not be able to work for a strict boss, I dance to my own tune.
  • She was dancing to his tune a little too, and she was uneasily aware of it.
  • My new boss wants everyone to dance to his tune.