| 单词 | to march to a different drummer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto march to a different drummer to march to a different drummer: see march v.2 Phrases.extracted from drummern.to march to a different drummer intransitive. to march to a different drummer and variants: to adopt a different approach or attitude to that of the majority of people; to be unconventional or individual. ΚΠ 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 348 If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.] 1984 New Yorker 28 May 60/2 He's a very intelligent man... He just marches to a different drummer. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 13 Sept. 7/1 Their main goal in life is to show Daddy and his Rotarian friends that they will always march to the beat of a different drummer. 1993 A. Dacyczyn Tightwad Gaz. iv. 183/2 I have given my best ‘march to your own drummer’ speeches, but I still can't put pudding and pickles in their lunch boxes. 1998 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. 17/2 Dries Van Noten and Jean Paul Gaultier marched to a different drum, with exuberant folklore and mix-master references. < as lemmas |
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