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”

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