SINCE 1828
different drummer
idiomDefinition of different drummer
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—used in phrases such as march to the beat of a different drummer to describe a person who thinks, lives, or behaves in an unusual way His strange behavior was no surprise—he had always marched to (the beat of) a different drummer.Her friends went to college, but she heard a different drummer and moved to the city to be an actor.
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