strike（或touch）a chord

strike（或touch）a chord affect or stir someone's emotions 触动某人的心弦： the issue of food safety strikes a chord with almost everyone. 食品安全的问题几乎触动每个人的心弦。 [ORIGIN: with figurative reference to the emotions being the 'strings' of the mind visualized as a musical instrument.]

• dishorse
• have a bone in one's throat
• divette
• phenoxides
• symminct
• stomachful
• selective radiator
• coolingly
• con merchant / speed merchant etc
• lividly
• phylloxerized
• in the trust of sb
• benzidin
• grainless
• pricer
• suspensible
• polymerides
• hydrovane
• pharmacophore
• stefanies
• microvasculature
• worse luck!
• pursues
• accorded
• ammonifiers
• petaliferous
• goblinries
• give it to
• mahonias
• Aunt Thomasina
• pyroelectric effect
• nervousness
• seaport
• epidermic method
• fibronectin
• bubble pack
• skitted; skitting
• armorheads
• dispensationalism
• DACOM
• nickelizes
• ferreter
• mercury chlorides
• ionic strength
• as far as anything goes
• supersigns
• mineral suite
• data sheets
• spongefly
• diy'er
• scots gaelics
• phenylic
• kinetism
• have oversight of sth
• rawhide
• pat entable
• follow the signs / sb's directions
• white prop
• polishers
• arborizing
• eutectic temperature
• globalised
• eye-mindedness
• nonzero
• transvector
• stock horse
• tectospheres
• face about
• argon
• Bandar Shahpur
• missionary worker
• sense stress
• exotisms
• competingly
• dodge cities
• business studies
• essentialised
• musicalizing
• leftie
• sailer
• mitreworts
• backflows
• clippies
• britpops
• external brake
• tropospheric superrefraction
• pudeurs
• spliing
• side chisel
• PVS
• tooth and nail
• dish ... out
• roller-skied
• curvature correction
• dotingness
• elm blight
• radiation pressure
• erase amplifier
• play your cards close to your chest
• rivetting