sounding board

sounding board

A person or group with whom one discusses an idea, plan, or suggestion in order to evaluate its strengths, acceptability, feasibility, practicality, etc. My friend John and I really know each other's skills and interests, so whenever one of us has an idea for a new project, we use the other as a sounding board.
See also: board, sounding
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • a bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • bushel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • rotten apple spoils the barrel
References in periodicals archive
" I now call on David Stocks and his group to commit to this year's Budget Sounding Board and to put playground politics behind them.
Sounding Board Home Theater Plus would like to thank their friends at New Web Design for making the home theater world come alive online with their outstanding website work.
Barton used CDW * G's engineering team as a sounding board for product selection and to recommend software licensing and technical agreements that address the college's requirements.
It is an information medium, a sounding board and voice for advocacy, and a record of our epidemic.
They fill a wide variety of roles such as proofreader, short order cook, sounding board, security or gatekeeper, gofer, counselor or psychologist, and stress buster.
* Market participants and regulators should support efforts, such as The Bond Market Association's effort to enhance the value of its Emergency Subcommittee, that would provide a source of real-time information on the functioning of the government securities clearance and settlement system and offer a potential sounding board for actions being contemplated by market participants, the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the U.S.
Its role is to act as a "sounding board" for the regional development agency Advantage West Midlands.
It also served as a place to get information, education and referrals, and as a sounding board where she could address her own issues around her father's illness.
The group also acts as a sounding board for breeder communications to make sure messages hit the mark.
Sounding Board. For those who hanker to influence JFP's direction, I am assembling a group of readers who are willing to act as a sounding board for potential articles, new features, and editorial direction.
As befits an academic who writes regularly for the global culture magazine PopMatters, films, music videos, television sitcoms, and the published observations of "New Black Aestheticians" like Greg Tate, bell hooks, Kevin Powell, Tricia Rose, and Michael Eric Dyson serve as his preferred dat abase and sounding board. If not completely novel, this approach is well-suited to teasing out fresh insights on generational distinctiveness, on contemporary conceptualizations of racial authenticity, and on evolving cultural trends.
The LMDC holds sway over the site, but Amanda Burden--chair of the Department of City Planning--is the LMDC's sounding board. Burden's influence over the redevelopment is unclear at this point.
Elsewhere in this issue, we present Tokyo: The High-Tech Slum (page 46), a meditative photo-essay by Stephen Mansfield on the way Japan's capital city retains the look and feel of a slum in many parts, while remaining a sounding board for high-tech.
The committee also serves as a public sounding board for pipeline safety issues.