poor ear
Example Sentences
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In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music."
From Time Magazine Archive
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I jerked the phone away from my poor ear.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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You have a poor ear for music, John Doe.
From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Mathes, Harry A.
But he had a poor ear for rhythm: his hexameter is monotonous as the iambics of Seneca.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it.
From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark