to do what someone else forces you to do
doing what someone else makes you do
always do what somebody else tells one do, whether he or she agrees with it or not
dance to your own tune means to do things your way, not the way others dictate
dance to a different tune means to change your behaviour
In order to keep the peace Peter has to dance to his wife’s tune.
My new boss wants everyone to dance to his tune.
My sister wants us to all go on holiday together. I am not going to dance to her tune.
My husband is so grumpy when he doesn’t get his way. So, I danced to his tune and went with him to the car show this weekend.
I have always been a bit of a free spirit. I dance to my own tune.
I will not be able to work for a strict boss, I dance to my own tune.
I hope that being arrested will make drunk drivers dance to a different tune.
Powerful businessman seem to have the district officials dancing to their tune.
There is no origin for this idiom
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