sing\ a\ new\ tune

sing\ a\ new\ tune
• sing a different tune
• whistle a different tune
• sing a new tune
v. phr. informal
To talk or act in the opposite way; contradict something said before.

Charles said that all smokers should be expelled from the team but he sang a different tune after the coach caught him smoking.

Syn.: change one's tune, dance to another tune
Compare: laugh out of the other side of one's mouth

Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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