| 词汇 | tin ear |
| 词源 | tin ear. A person who has a tin ear is tone deaf and thus doesn’t appreciate good music, especially jazz. He can also be deaf to the rhythm of words. The term, dating back to the 1930s, was probably suggested to jazz musicians by the adjec- tive tinny, “cheap and poorly made,” and the earlier term tin ear from boxing, which meant about the same as cauliflower ear. |
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