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- And all that jazz
- This idiom means that everything related or similar is included.
- Bells on
- (USA) To be somewhere with bells on means to arrive there happy and delighted to attend.
- Blow your own horn
- If you blow your own horn, you boast about your achievements and abilities. ('Blow your own trumpet' is an alternative form.)
- Blow your own trumpet
- If someone blows their own trumpet, they boast about their talents and achievements. ('Blow your own horn' is an alternative form.)
- Call the tune
- The person who calls the tune makes the important decisions about something.
- Change your tune
- If someone changes their ideas or the way they talk about them, they change their tune.
- Clear as a bell
- If something is as clear as a bell, it is very clear or easy to understand.
- Face the music
- If you have to face the music, you have to accept the negative consequences of something you have done wrong.
- Fiddle while Rome burns
- If people are fiddling while Rome burns, they are wasting their time on futile things while problems threaten to destroy them.
- Fine tuning
- Small adjustments to improve something or to get it working are called fine tuning.
- Fit as a fiddle
- If you are fit as a fiddle, you are in perfect health.
- For a song
- If you buy or sell something for a song, it is very cheap.
- It takes two to tango
- This idiom is used to suggest that when things go wrong, both sides are involved and neither side is completely innocent.
- March to the beat of your own drum
- If people march to the beat of their own drum, they do things the way they want without taking other people into consideration.
- Music to my ears
- If something someone says is music to your ears, it is exactly what you had wanted to hear.
- Play second fiddle
- If you play second fiddle, you take a subordinate role behind someone more important.
- Pull out all the stops
- If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you possibly can to achieve the result you want.
- See you on the big drum
- A good night phrase to children.
- Strike a chord
- If strikes a chord, it is familiar to you, reminds you of something or is connected to you somehow.
- Toot you own horn
- If someone toot their own horn, they like to boast about their achievements.
- Whistle for it
- If someone says that you can whistle for something, they are determined to ensure that you don't get it.
- Whistle-stop tour
- A whistle-stop tour is when someone visits a number of places quickly, not stopping for long.
- Whistling Dixie
- (USA) If someone is whistling Dixie, they talk about things in a more positive way than the reality.
- Whistling in the dark
- If someone is whistling in the dark, they believe in a positive result, even though everybody else is sure it will not happen.
- You can't unring a bell
- This means that once something has been done, you have to live with the consequences as it can't be undone.
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