From the third paragraph of this article at Spiked.
上記の文で、sing from the same hymn sheetの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "sing from the same hymn sheet" mean?
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解答
意味:残念ながら英辞郎や他のオンライン英和辞書にはこのイディオムは掲載されていませんが、英辞郎に意味の近いイディオムのsing the same songは掲載されていて、その意味は、
〈比喩〉同じことを繰り返して言うこの意味から、「<発言等を>同調する」という意味になります。
また、このイディオムも主にイギリスで使用されていると書いてある多くの英英辞書はありますが、インターネット等の影響で近年では、米国でも使用が増えています。
されに、変形としてsing from the same song/hymn sheet/bookがあります。
Answer
According to The Free Dictionary:To have the same understanding of something as someone else; to say the same things about something as other people, especially in public. Primarily heard in UK.Although it says in the above definition that this idiom is "primarily heard in the UK," due to the Internet and other media, I think it is being used more in the US.
Examples
- Make sure everyone from the campaign is singing from the same hymn sheet before we release any kind of statement to the press.
- We're all singing from the same hymn sheet and there is a real will to clean up the game, though it may take a life ban to restore cricket's credibility.
- We should bring together the departments so that we're all singing from the same hymn sheet.
- As she and her husband deal with the latest scandal, they can at least be relied on to sing from the same song sheet.
- We really need to make sure we are all singing from the same hymn sheet before the press conference.
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