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/- Many households bought parlour pianos and needed music and songs to play and sing.
- You will be required to sing a short song of your choice and demonstrate your acting skills on the day.
- She would mention a word and I would have to sing an Elvis song with that word in it.
Synonyms
- Slow music stared, and then Emmet broke into song with his sweet voice.
- Harvey, who then broke into song and rendered the hymn, Never Get Weary, was quickly accompanied by the congregation.
- Some of the pan players broke into song, adding flair to the band's rendition as the pan sticks belted down the pulsating rhythms.
- The song has three stanzas of six lines, carrying four stresses downbeats separated by upbeats.
- Pamphilia to Amphilanthus then closes with a series of four songs and nine sonnets.
- The song of the poet himself will reanimate the memory of Troy and rescue it from the dark tombs.
- The elegiac sonnet provides this opportunity for the poet, for it literally becomes a song of mourning.
- Learn how to use field marks, habitat, behavior, and song to identify birds.
- The Winter Wren is a tiny woodland bird whose song is as elaborate as its plumage is drab.
Synonyms
Phrases
for a song
on song
a song and dance
Origin
Old English sang, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zang and German Sang, also to sing.
The Old English words sing and song are from the same ancient root. The phrase to sing for your supper, ‘to derive a benefit or favour by providing a service in return’, derives from the nursery rhyme Little Tommy Tucker: ‘Little Tommy Tucker / Sings for his supper; / What shall we give him? / White bread and butter.’ If something is on sale for a song it is being sold very cheaply. This expression may come from the old practice of selling written copies of ballads at fairs. You could also say for an old song, perhaps because you would be likely to pay much less for an old ballad sheet than for a recent one. The phrase was popularized in the 1970s when Going for a Song was used as the title of a television quiz show in which teams had to guess the date and value of antiques. If you make a song and dance about something you cause a fuss or commotion or, in American English, give a long explanation that is deliberately misleading or confusing. In 17th-century America a ‘song and dance’ referred to a form of entertainment later applied to a vaudeville act. The modern senses developed around the turn of the 20th century. See also all
Rhymes
Song2
/sɒŋ/The Northern Song was ousted in 1127 by Mongolian tribes who absorbed it within their newly founded Jin dynasty. The Southern Song continued to flourish until it finally fell to the Mongols, led by the grandsons of Genghis Khan, in 1279. Both the Northern and Southern Song dynasties were marked by prosperity, cultural flowering, and technological advances