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| Russian | English |
| печка, от которой нужно плясать | jumping-off place (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| плясать на чьей-либо могиле | dance on someone's grave (4uzhoj) |
| плясать под дудку | dance to someone's bidding (Andrey Truhachev) |
| плясать под дудку | dance to someone's tune (Andrey Truhachev) |
| плясать под дудку | dance to someone's pipe (Andrey Truhachev) |
| плясать под чью-либо дудку | dance to someone's pipe (Andrey Truhachev) |
| плясать под чью-либо дудку | dance to someone's tune |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| плясать под чужую дудку | dance their dance (Zudwa) |
| плясать под чью-то дудку | march to one's tune (hypnosheep) |