blow the whistle, to bring something to the attention of other people in order to stop something bad from happening, strike a chord, cause someone to feel sympathy, emotion, or enthusiasm, set the tone, to establish a particular mood or character for something, face the music, be confronted with the unpleasant consequences of one's actions, play it by ear, to improvise, to deal with something spontaneously, ring a bell, sound vaguely familiar, jump on the bandwagon, join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful, play second fiddle, be treated as less important than someone or something, music to one's ears, something one is pleased to hear about, and all that jazz, etc., and so on and so forth, swan song, a final act before dying or ending something, sound like a broken record, to say the same thing over and over again, chime in, to join or interrupt a conversation, usually to express agreement, to fine tune, to make sth. perfect by making small adjustments.

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