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单词 to change one's tune
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to change one's tune (also †note)
b. to change one's tune (also †note) [compare French changer de note (1611 in Cotgrave)] To alter one's opinion; to alter one's manner or tone, esp. to act respectfully having previously been insolent or derogatory. Also occasionally to change a person's note: to cause (a person) to behave more respectfully. Cf. to sing another tune at tune n. 4b.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
to turn, wend the luff?c1225
to sing another song or a different tune1390
to waive (one's) wit1390
to change one's minda1500
to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523
to turn (one's) tippet1546
to change one's note1560
to shift hands1611
to face about1645
to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864
to sing another tune1890
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > speak more respectfully
to change one's tune (also note)1560
1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 385 Of which places it is plaine, that ye vnderstand, that in Adam we were created to gods image... But here you change your tune, and say: He hath made man like to his owne image in Christe Iesu.
?1570 W. Wager Inough is as Good as Feast sig. Fiijv I wil make you chaunge your note Before that for your labour you get the value of a grote.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. xvii. 601 When all men expected present and seuere castigation, the King changed his tune, highly commending his constancie and honestie.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. ix. 42 I'll make him change his Note presently.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. III. vii. 449 Finding that the more he declined the command the more they pressed him to accept it, he changed his note.
a1761 A. Ellys Tracts on Liberty (1763) II. iii. 164 The nobles, finding themselves and the whole kingdom in great distress and danger, began to change their tune, and court those whom they had despised and oppressed before.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. vi. 107 A beast of a servant came up..shouting... He changed his note, however, when he saw Skulker's game.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped v. 44 ‘No,’ said the poor moon-calf, changing his tune at once.
1947 J. A. Roy Heart is Highland 2 She changed her tune entirely and instead of another yowl..a smile broke forth.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor xv. 98 They changed their tune on that one pretty quickly when the docu-soap format came along.
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