songbook

sing from the same songbook

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. I think we should have a meeting with everyone who's involved in the project. That way, we'll all be singing from the same songbook before we begin. Make sure everyone from the campaign is singing from the same songbook before we release any kind of statement to the press.
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sing off the same songbook

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. I think we should have a meeting with everyone who's involved in the project. That way, we'll all be singing off the same songbook before we begin. Make sure everyone on the campaign is singing off the same songbook before we release any kind of statement to the press.
See also: off, same, sing, songbook
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a ghost at the feast
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a fast talker
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a horse of another
  • a horse of another color
  • a horse of another colour
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
References in periodicals archive
Talented Karine Polwart will bring her Scottish Songbook show to Paisley for The Spree festival later this year
Karine's Spree show will be full of classics
The real deal, but Cher's famous outfits will be recreated for Believe - the Cher Songbook
Missed out on Cher ticket? This show is just as good! PREVIEW: MUSIC Believe - The Cher Songbook Empire Theatre, Liverpool
The simple familiar melodies and basic chord outlines make this songbook extremely versatile.--Reviewed by Colette Keogh, NCTM, Evans, Georgia
Super Easy Songbook: Three Chord Songs, 60 Simple Arrangements for Piano
What does he mean when he says New American Songbook? So I checked out the song line-up and I was floored.
Mathis sings The New American Songbook
The Star Spangled Songbook, edited by Mark Clague and Andrew Kuster, offers a rare combination of scholarly erudition, accessibility, and practical value.
America's national anthem
If you're new to Newman, Songbook is an ideal place to start before checking out his studio albums.
The Randy Newman Songbook
This song, composed by Friedrich Kuhlbars (1841-1924), the schoolmaster in Viljandi, was first published in 1868 in Laulik koolis ja kodus, an Estonian songbook for school and home.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF PRINTED MUSIC IN THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESTONIA
"The Great American Songbook is music that has become timeless over the years, passed on from generation to generation and appreciated for its ability to connect to the heart and appeal to contemporary emotions," Feinstein told The Register-Guard in a phone interview this week.
Hitting all the right keys
Award-winning Welsh musical director, Ross Leadbeater will celebrate the music of The Great British Songbook with a special Welsh celebration of the music of Ivor Novello in Cardiff.
PREVIEW; The Great British Songbook Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
"Rise Again Songbook" is a treasure chest of words and chords for over 1200 well known traditional or folk songs.
Rise Again Songbook: A Group Singing Songbook
"Ten Zany Birds" is a lavishly colorful number songbook featuring imaginary birds of fantastic rainbow hues, beautifully portrayed in bright water color pages of illustrations.
Ten Zany Birds
YOG Reunion Songbook was prepared over the internet, as 70-odd performers no longer live in the city or even in the country.
The stars come out for theatre group's reunion
The star of Judy - The Songbook Of Judy Garland - however, is, her mother and Lorna is delighted to see the impact Judy has on a new generation.
Star is reborn by daughter Lorna; THEATRE
Dylan led a generation in overthrowing the classic American songbook for a wild, more personal style, forcing reviewers of Shadows to note that in it Dylan is doing something he's always done: "confounding expectations." Yet in his MusiCares speech, he mocked those who dared say that's his driving motive.
Dylan in Shadows
Walker; THE WORDLESS LEONARD COHEN SONGBOOK; The Porcupine's Quill (Comics & Graphic Novels: Comics & Graphic Novels) 22.95 ISBN: 9780889843752
The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook