strike a chord
If something strikes a chord, it causes people to approve of it or agree with it:
Their policy on childcare has struck a responsive chord with women voters.
Her speech struck a sympathetic chord among business leaders.
If something strikes a chord, it causes people to remember something else because it is similar to it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accepting & agreeing
- accept
- accredited
- assent
- be ruled by sb idiom
- buy-in
- conclude
- court
- gauntlet
- leap
- listen to reason idiom
- middle ground
- mustn't grumble idiom
- pounce
- reach
- settlement
- signatory
- swallow
- take sb up on sth
- unquestioning
- without a murmur idiom
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Remembering, reminding and reminders