march to the beat of a different drum

Meaning: (idiomatic)To do things in one's own wayregardlessofsocietalnormsand conventionalexpectations.1994January 10,Penn Jillette, “Las Vegas: Tonight! Miracles, Live!”, inTime: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. Theymarch to the beat of a different drummachine.2004, Danny Hakim, “E.P.A. Energy-Saving Spots Give Cars Short Shrift”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 July 2011:The ad ends with a shot of Mark pushing the car down a hill and Suzanne saying, "He stillmarches to the beat of a different drum."2004,Larry Portis,French Frenzies: A Social History of Pop Music in France,→ISBN,page114: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 youmarch to the beat of a different drum.

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