tin ear
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- (idiomatic) Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language.
- 1973, Thomas Cable, "A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody," College English, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 593:
- Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
- 1973, Thomas Cable, "A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody," College English, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 593:
- (idiomatic) Insensitivity to the nuances of the current situation or the subtleties of a craft; indifference to somebody else's attitudes and moods.
- 2012, Ripping yarns: A revived spat between Japan and South Korea unsettles the United States, The Economist, 18 August 2012
- Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.
- 2012, Ripping yarns: A revived spat between Japan and South Korea unsettles the United States, The Economist, 18 August 2012
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inability to appreciate the elements of performed music
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