common expressions that are based on music

Idioms derived from music are all around us. Here are some of my favorite common expressions that are based on music.

• Tone deaf: Not good at perceiving the impact of one’s words, insensitive.
• Preaching to the choir: advocate something to people who already share one’s convictions about its merits or importance.
• Face the music: deal with the consequences.
• Music to my ears: Good to hear; welcome news
• Blowing your own trumpet: Brag; emphasize one’s own contributions
• Toot your own horn: Brag; emphasize one’s own contributions
• Like a broken record: someone who keeps talking about the same story over and over again.
• Strike a chord: Used to describe something that is familiar to you, reminds you of something or is connected to you somehow.
• Change your tune: To change one’s opinion about something.
• Dance to someone’s tune: Follow someone’s directions or influence
• Sing a different tune: Change direction or opinion
• All that jazz: and such similar things.
• Jazz something up: improve something, give it more sparkle
• March to the beat of your own drum: When someone does things the way they want to, without taking anybody else or anything else into consideration.
• Drum up support/ Business / Interest: Try to get extra support/business/interest by various means.
• Fit as a fiddle: extremely healthy
• Playing second fiddle: To play a subordinate role to someone
• Jam session / Jamming: Playing music with various instruments in an improvised and informal setting.
• Elevator music: Pleasant but boring recorded music that is played in public places.
• Fine Tuning: fixing details
• Pitch perfect:
  • exactly right in tone, mood, or pitch.”a pitch-perfect, hilarious send-up of a Ken Burns–style documentary”