Music Idioms

drum it into their heads

• To make the decisions

• To teach someone something repeatedly

to face the music

• Accept the negative consequences of your actions

• Take a subordinate role to someone else

jazz it up

• To boast/praise yourself

• To make something more colourful / interesting

• To talk about something else, we’ve heard this before

•  Exactly what one wants to hear

to blow my own trumpet

• To be moved/remind of something when hearing something

• To talk about something else, we’ve heard this before

• To boast/praise yourself

• To be in perfect health

to play second fiddle

• Exactly what one wants to hear

• To take a subordinate role to someone else

• To visit the key things in a places very quickly

• Someone who keeps saying the same thing over and ove

a whistle stop tour

• Visit the key things in a places very quickly

• Someone who keeps saying the same thing over and ove

music to my ears

• Exactly what one wants to hear

• Constantly talking about something

to bang on

• To make the decisions

• To talk about something constantly

•  To teach someone something repeatedly

 like a broken record

• Talk about something else, we’ve heard this before

• Someone who keeps saying the same thing over and ove

to call the tune/shots

• To make the decisions

• To be moved/remind of something when hearing somethin

• Accept the negative consequences of your actions