instrument

Related to instrument: Financial instrument, research instrument

accompany (one)

1. To travel with one. This phrase can be used in reference to both people and things. While I enjoy spending time alone, I sometimes wish I had someone to accompany me on vacations. Pete's dog was more than happy to accompany him to the park. My cell phone always accompanies me when I leave the house.
2. To play a musical instrument in support of a featured band or performer. While her little sister played the flute, Sarah accompanied her on the clarinet. Will you accompany me on piano when I sing at the talent show?
See also: accompany

accompany (one) with (some instrument)

To play a musical instrument in support of a featured band or performer. I need someone to accompany me with piano when I sing at the talent show.
See also: accompany
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

accompany someone on a musical instrument

to provide complementary instrumental music for someone's musical performance. Sally accompanied the singer on the piano.
See also: accompany, instrument, musical, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • from my cold, dead hands
  • great minds
  • great minds think alike
  • how about
  • how/what about...?
  • eggs is eggs
  • (one's) best foot forward
  • best foot forward
  • long time, no hear
  • How long is a piece of string?
References in classic literature
I became almost frantic as I let my imagination run riot among the possibilities for which this clicking instrument might stand.
The very franticness of the instrument's wild clashing betokened something of the kind.
Pellucidar
To understand what is meant by accuracy, it will be well to consider first instruments of measurement, such as a balance or a thermometer.
The Analysis of Mind
Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility, and, at the request of the gentlemen, remained at the instrument till her ladyship's carriage was ready to take them all home.
Pride and Prejudice
The proletariat will use its political supremacy top wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Communist Manifesto
Johnson," I said, "and attend to the work of unpacking the extra instruments and having them properly set upon the bridge."
I would replace the destroyed instruments upon the bridge; every officer and man should know when we crossed thirty.
The Lost Continent
"I have heard him lamenting her having no instrument repeatedly; oftener than I should suppose such a circumstance would, in the common course of things, occur to him."
Weston was the most used of the two to yield; till a little bustle in the room shewed them that tea was over, and the instrument in preparation; and at the same moment Mr.
Emma
His underlings, two gnomes with square faces, leather aprons, and linen breeches, were moving the iron instruments on the coals.
Notre Dame de Paris
He gave me the names and descriptions of all the musical instruments, and the general terms of art in playing on each of them.
On the second morning, about eleven o'clock, the king himself in person, attended by his nobility, courtiers, and officers, having prepared all their musical instruments, played on them for three hours without intermission, so that I was quite stunned with the noise; neither could I possibly guess the meaning, till my tutor informed me.
Gullivers Travels
"These are the usual nautical instruments," I replied, "and I know the use of them.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
Besides the sticks and the drums, there are no other musical instruments among the Typees, except one which might appropriately be denominated a nasal flute.
Typee