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• strike a chord (with someone) — strike/touch/a chord (with someone) phrase to produce an emotion such as sympathy in someone Her tale of woe struck a chord with Edward. Thesaurus: to make someone feel a particular emotion or strong emotionssynonym Main entry: chord …   Useful english dictionary

• strike a chord (with somebody) — strike/touch a ˈchord (with sb) idiom to say or do sth that makes people feel sympathy or enthusiasm • The speaker had obviously struck a chord with his audience. Main entry: ↑chordidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• sympathy — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, deep, genuine, great, heartfelt, real, strong ▪ little, scant (esp. BrE) …   Collocations dictionary

• sympathy — sym‧pa‧thy [ˈsɪmpəθi] noun 1. come out in sympathy HUMAN RESOURCES if workers come out in sympathy with workers who strike (= refuse to work), they refuse to work as well: • The truck drivers are on strike, and other employees have downed tools ( …   Financial and business terms

• Strike — may refer to:Refusal to work or perform* Strike action, also known as a Walkout, a work stoppage by a corporation or public institution * General strike, a strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country *Church… …   Wikipedia

• strike — The act of quitting work by a body of workers for the purpose of coercing their employer to accede to some demand they have made upon him, and which he has refused. Jeffery De Witt Insulator Co. v. N. L. R. B., C.C.A.4, 91 F.2d 134, 138. A… …   Black's law dictionary

• strike — See exercise price See exercise price NYSE Euronext Glossary * * * ▪ I. strike strike 1 [straɪk] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES a period of time during which a group of workers deliberately stop working because of a disagreement about pay,… …   Financial and business terms

• strike — strikeless, adj. /struyk/, v., struck or (Obs.) strook; struck or (esp. for 31 34) stricken or (Obs.) strook; striking; n., adj. v.t. 1. to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit …   Universalium

• sympathy — noun (U) 1 the feeling of being sorry for someone who is in a bad situation and understanding how they feel: He wants your sympathy so he s pretending to be sick. | have/feel sympathy for sb: I ve a lot of sympathy for her; she brought up the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• strike — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 industrial protest ADJECTIVE ▪ long ▪ short ▪ one day, two day, etc. ▪ 24 hour, 48 hour …   Collocations dictionary

• strike — strike1 W3S3 [straık] v past tense and past participle struck [strʌk] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(hit)¦ 2¦(hit with hand/weapon etc)¦ 3¦(thought/idea)¦ 4 strike somebody as (being) something 5¦(stop work)¦ 6¦(attack)¦ 7¦(harm)¦ 8¦(something bad happens)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English