dance to a new tuneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

dance to a new tune ‎(三人称単数 現在形 dances to a new tune, 現在分詞 dancing to a new tune, 過去形および過去分詞形 danced to a new tune)

1. To significantly change one's opinion, attitude, or behavior.
   • 1991, J. L. Granatstein & ‎Robert Bothwell, Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy, ISBN 0802068731, page 207:

     Policy was to be bold, not timid; campaign promises were to be carried out, not cynically shelved; and the public service would dance to a new tune, one where the ministers called the tune.

   • 2005, Louis Adams, Diary of a Shattered Spirit, ISBN 1452033587, page 46:

     We must ask God to give us strength to dance to a new tune.

   • 2008, Ian Nish, The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment, ISBN 1135318808:

     As a result, the Japanese found themselves having to dance to a new tune and it was one they were scarcely familiar with.

   • 2011, Bob Shaw, The Peace Machine, ISBN 0575111186:

     I can make neutrons dance to a new tune, but I shrink from telling a human tick to fasten onto someone else.

2. Used other than as an idiom: see dance,‎ new,‎ tune.