| 单词 | to have a tin ear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a tin ear tin ear n. (a) slang = cauliflower ear n. at cauliflower n. Compounds 2; (b) colloquial (usually with indefinite article), tone-deafness, aural insensitivity, esp. in to have a tin ear; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > type or quality of hearing > [verb (intransitive)] > insensitive to have a tin ear1923 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > ear cauliflower ear1909 tin ear1923 1923 Dial. Notes 5 239 Tin ear on, to put a, v. phr., To strike or beat, especially, about the head. 1935 Peabody Bull. (Baltimore) Dec. 42/2 A player has a ‘tin ear’ when his intonation is poor and his playing is mechanical. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 39/2 He gives the, possibly false, impression, that he has a ‘tin ear’, as his countrymen put it, for many of the popular art-forms he discusses. 1962 M. Young & P. Willmott Family & Kinship in E. London (rev. ed.) i. vi. 101 A man with skill as a boxer, and a ‘tin ear’ (cauliflower ear) to prove it, had..prestige. 1975 Times 17 Apr. 14/4 Manson had a tin ear but..the Beach Boys recorded at least one of his songs. 1981 L. Deighton XPD xviii. 159 ‘Do you play the piano?’.. ‘My wife insisted I get it for Billy, but that kid's got a tin ear.’ < as lemmas |
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