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Idiom

change one's tune

Meaning

To reconsider; rethink; to reach a different conclusion.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He changed his tune when he saw the price.”

“She was against the idea at first, but she changed her tune after hearing the benefits.”

“The critic, who had once dismissed the artist as overrated, abruptly changed his tune when the late works were revealed to the public.”

Examples

simple

“He changed his tune when he saw the price.”

contextual

“She was against the idea at first, but she changed her tune after hearing the benefits.”

complex

“The critic, who had once dismissed the artist as overrated, abruptly changed his tune when the late works were revealed to the public.”

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