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Sounding board

noun

A person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability.

(music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument. Synonym: soundboard.

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"Sounding board" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the cement flooring was, in the stillness, little less than a sounding board, Jimmie Dale reached the wall and felt along it to the window, the lower edge of whose sill was just slightly below the level of his shoulder. It opened inward, if he remembered correctly. His fingers were feeling for the fastenings. It was too dark to see a ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... a story, and not propounding theories in this book; and chiefly I am telling of the ideas and influences and emotions that have happened to me—me as a sort of sounding board for my world. The moralist is at liberty to go over my conduct with his measure and say, "At this point or at that you went wrong, and you ought to have done"—so-and-so. The point of interest to the statesman is that it didn't for a moment occur to us to do so-and-so when ...

— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... perpendicular fall. It slashed them in the face under the drooping brims of their sombreros, so they drew into the shelter of the highest part of the standing wall. Still some of the rain struck them, but the major part of it was shunted over their heads. Moreover, the wall acted as a sort of sounding board, catching up every odd noise from the storm-beaten plain beyond. They could speak to ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... aloof and unconquered. This is a hymn for the swelling notes of an organ or for the great harmonies of a choir. It was not made to be debased by association with this caterwauling wood and wire, this sounding board for barbershop chords, this accomplice of sick lovers leaning on village fences. ...

— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill

... up over the hill to a high cliff overhanging the river which makes a sounding board for those sounds, which never abate, of a ...

— Lige on the Line of March - An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium • Glenna Lindsley Bigelow