sing a different tune

present singular third person sings a different tune · participle present singing a different tune · past sang a different tune · participle past sung a different tune

1. figurativelyidiomaticinformalTo hold a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.

   "[…] Wait until you've walked a mile in their snowshoes...literally. You might be singing a different tune by then."

   2016, Erica Vetsch, His Prairie Sweetheart

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   Miss Maudie said Miss Stephanie’d be singing a different tune if Tim Johnson was still coming up the street, that they’d find out soon enough, they’d send his head to Montgomery.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC