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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | заставлять кого-л. плясать под чужую дудку | make a person sing to another tune |
| idiom. | плясать под чужую дудку | dance their dance (Zudwa) |
| idiom. | плясать под чужую дудку | to dance to someone else's tune (If you say that someone is dancing to someone else's tune, you mean that they are allowing themselves to be controlled by the other person. [disapproval]: Supermarkets buy meat at the lowest price and farmers have been forced to dance to their tune.| The senators are dancing to the tune of the President. 'More) |
| idiom. | плясать под чужую дудку | to dance to someone's tune (If you say that someone is dancing to someone else's tune, you mean that they are allowing themselves to be controlled by the other person. [disapproval]: Supermarkets buy meat at the lowest price and farmers have been forced to dance to their tune.| The senators are dancing to the tune of the President. 'More) |
| proverb | плясать под чужую дудку | dance to someone's pipe (Olga Okuneva) |
| gen. | плясать под чужую дудку | dance to every man's pipe |