to sing from the same hymnbook
- idiom
- Informal
:
estar en la misma sintonía
- To achieve our goals, it's important that we all sing from the same hymnbook.
Examples
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After the meeting, the management team began to sing from the same hymnbook about the new strategy.
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During the press conference, the politicians made sure to sing from the same hymnbook on the main issues.
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We all sing from the same hymnbook during meetings.
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Don't you sing from the same hymnbook as your colleagues?
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The team members finally started singing from the same hymnbook, agreeing on the project's goals and objectives.
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During the meeting, it became clear that everyone was singing from the same hymnbook when they all supported the proposed changes.
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For the campaign to be successful, all the departments must be singing from the same hymnbook regarding the strategy.
Synonyms
5
3.8
To come together and support the same cause
1
4.6
To agree with others, often in public
Antonyms
How United
57
3.8
- Informal
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
152
2.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
sing + from + the + same + hymnbook
The phrase uses a clear metaphor — people who 'sing from the same hymnbook' are imagined as singing the same words, so the literal constituents (sing + hymnbook) point toward agreement. However, understanding this requires cultural/pragmatic knowledge of group singing and is not fully predictable from the words alone, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase sing from the same hymnbook comes from the picture of people in church all reading the same words from one hymnbook so they sing the same lines together. So it means 'to agree' or 'to share the same message'.