в одну дудку дудеть

• В ОДНУ <B ТУ ЖЕ> ДУДУ (ДУДКУ) ДУДЕТЬ (с кем) coll

[VP; subj: human; the verb may take the initial position, otherwise fixed WO]

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1. to pursue the same course of action as another or others; (of two or more people) to act similarly:

- X и Y в одну дуду дудят{{}}≈ X and Y do <are up to> the same thing.

2. to repeat, usu. incessantly, another's opinion, judgment etc (usu. having adopted it as one's own); (of two or more people) to voice, usu. incessantly, the same opinion, judgment etc; to repeat incessantly one's own opinion, judgment etc:

- X дудит в одну дуду с Y-ом{{}}≈ X plays <pipes> the same tune as Y;

- X sings the same song as Y;

- X takes the same line as Y;

- [in limited contexts] X parrots what Y says;

|| X и Y <X с Y-ом> дудят в одну дуду ≈ X and Y play < sing, pipe> the same tune;

- X and Y sing the same song;

- X and Y take the same line;

|| X дудит в одну дуду{{}}≈ X keeps harping on the same string (thing, subject);

- X keeps repeating the same thing over and over.

     ♦ "Вы читали сегодня газеты? - посапывая, спросил толстяк. - Наш Сергей Дмитриевич целую речь произнёс..." - "Да, ужасная гадость, - сказала я... - Вот обедаешь каждый день с человеком, человек как человек, и вдруг он начинает дудеть в одну дуду с негодяями..." (Чуковская 2). "Have you read the papers today?" the stout gentleman asked wheezing. "Our Sergei Dimitriyevich made a whole speech. ..." "Yes, it was disgusting," I said. ..."Every day you eat with a person who is a man like any other man, and suddenly he starts playing the same tune as those scoundrels..." (2a).

     ♦ ...Тюремное начальство обо мне не забывало... Настаивали, чтобы я снял голодовку... В одну эту дудку... дудели и начальник тюрьмы, и прокурор, и врач, и мой сокамерник (Марченко 2)...The prison officials had not forgotten about me. ...[They] insisted that I end my hunger strike. ... They all piped the same tune-the prison commander, the prosecutor, the doctor and my cellmate (2a).