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dance to someone's tune

dance to someone's tune verb: to do what someone demands or expects, do as told, defer to someone's wishes or demands, do someone's bidding.

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)

  1. To do what someone demands or expects, do as told, defer to someone's wishes or demands, do someone's bidding.
    • 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.1995, M.K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy, →ISBN
    • 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.2011, God'spower E O Udjor, The Dance of Herodias Daughter: Revealing Satan’s Last Deception in the Church, →ISBN, page 51

dance to someone's tune meaning in Persian

dance to someone's tune in Persian

to do what someone expects
به ساز کسی رقصیدن be sâze kasi raqsidan

Forms of dance to someone's tune

third-person singular presentdances to someone's tune
present participledancing to someone's tune
past participledanced to someone's tune
pastdanced to someone's tune

Questions about dance to someone's tune

What does dance to someone's tune mean?
Dance to someone's tune means to do what someone demands or expects, do as told, defer to someone's wishes or demands, do someone's bidding.
What is dance to someone's tune in Persian?
Dance to someone's tune in Persian is به ساز کسی رقصیدن (be sâze kasi raqsidan). See Dance to someone's tune meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is dance to someone's tune?
Dance to someone's tune is a verb.
What is the past tense of dance to someone's tune?
The past tense of dance to someone's tune is danced to someone's tune.

Words near dance to someone's tune in the dictionary

  1. dance studios
  2. dance the hempen jig
  3. dance the Tyburn jig
  4. dance to a different tune
  5. dance to a new tune
  6. dance to someone's tune
  7. dance upon nothing
  8. dance with the devil
  9. dance with the one that brought ya
  10. dance with the one that brought you
  11. dance with the one that brung ya

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