She flipped her tune
Posted: November 12, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: changed her tune, flipped, humor, idioms, language, malaphors 2 CommentsThis is another from Naomi David. She was talking about someone changing her opinion. This is a congruent conflation of “change (one’s) tune” and “flipped”, both meaning to change or reverse course, or change sides in a controversy. “Flipped the script” (make a total reversal or radical change) might also have been on the speaker’s mind (a shout out to Verbatim for noting this). In this current political climate, she may have been thinking of states “flipping” from red to blue or vice versa. A big thanks to Naomi and to Katie Norwood for hearing this one and passing it on.
There is also the phrase “flipped the script” which means to make a total reversal or radical change.
Yes! Will add that. Thank you! Dave