dance to another tune

"They'd dance to another tune if the boilers were suddenly to burst, or if the ship ran foul of a rock."

Peering into the gray smother of sea and sky, Captain Jonathan Wellsby licked his lips hungrily as he said to himself: "Not now, but if the storm abates and we float through the night, these lousy picaroons shall dance to another tune."

“What I want to know is, is the piper to be paid, or shall we have to dance to another tune by way of reprisal.”

The young person is a retainer of the Countess-Dowager of Derby, so please your Majesty," said Peveril, in a low tone of voice; "and I am——" "Hold, hold," said the King; "this is a dance to another tune, and not fit for a place so public.

Or he'll perhaps come and give you one or two in the ribs; then you'll dance to another tune!