dance to someone's tune
English
Verb
dance to someone's tune (third-person singular simple present dances to someone's tune, present participle dancing to someone's tune, simple past and past participle danced to someone's tune)
- To do what someone demands or expects, do as told, defer to someone's wishes or demands, do someone's bidding.
- 1995, M.K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy, →ISBN:
- You simply become a puppet in the hands of others who will make you dance to their tune. In other words, you reduce yourself to a slave or beggar by mortgaging your happiness on the mercy of others.
- 2011, God'spower E O Udjor, The Dance of Herodias Daughter: Revealing Satan’s Last Deception in the Church, →ISBN, page 51:
- Satan doesn't care whether they carry the bible; he doesn't care whether they say Jesus is Lord. That's not his problem; he has successfully used them to create a counterfeit church to confuse the populace. He knows they are already his and they dance to his tune ... their destiny is sealed.
- 2012, E.V. Thompson, Dream Traders, →ISBN:
- If the other traders followed our example, relations between Britain and China would improve dramatically. Think about it the next time you go off in a huff because the Chinese won't dance to your tune.'
- 2014, Bernadette Reynolds, Dance to Your Own Tune, →ISBN, page 1:
- We are on earth to dance to our own tune! We have to know who I the individual is.
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Translations
to do what someone expects
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