poor ear

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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

I jerked the phone away from my poor ear.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.

From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark

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