Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

march to the beat of a different drum

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English

Syllables: march -to the beat- of a d-if-fer-en-t -drum
IPA

55

Scrabble Score

30

Letters

8

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To do things in one's own way regardless of societal norms and conventional expectations.

Example Sentences

"Siegfried and Roy, two nuts from Germany, are out of their wealthy little minds. They live in a mansion whose ceiling is painted like the Sistine Chapel, with either Siegfried or Roy (who can remember?) in place of Adam. Roy has a "meditation chamber" (the rest of us have dressing rooms) furnished with a mystic rug and cages for his tigers. They wow the crowd with heavy machinery and endangered-species eugenics. I love S&R. They march to the beat of a different drum machine."
"The ad ends with a shot of Mark pushing the car down a hill and Suzanne saying, "He still marches to the beat of a different drum.""
"A defense of non-conformism, deceptively simple in tone and construction, and only slightly political, it is the story of a loner . . . who stays in bed on Bastille Day and ignores the military parade . . . "the good people don't like it when you take a path different from theirs," when you march to the beat of a different drum."

Inflected Forms

marches to the beat of a different drum (present, singular) marching to the beat of a different drum (participle, present) marched to the beat of a different drum (participle, past) marched to the beat of a different drum (past) march to a different drum (alternative) march to a different drummer (alternative) march to one's own drum (alternative) march to one's own drummer (alternative) march to the beat of a different drummer (alternative) march to the beat of one's own drum (alternative) march to the beat of one's own drummer (alternative) march to a different beat (alternative)

Questions

What does march to the beat of a different drum mean?: To do things in one's own way regardless of societal norms and conventional expectations.

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