I heard this after a date ended on the t.v show BLIND DATE
2006-09-12 07:17:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Just go with the flow. Let what happens happen without predicting or preparing for anything.
2006-09-12 07:19:31 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
It's amazing how some gifted people can play those extremely challenging pieces by ear, such as Fanatise - Improptu, the only song I can play by ear is "Mary Had A little Lamb"..
2015-12-15 12:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by ryan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Play It By Ear
2016-09-26 02:17:36 · answer #3 · answered by sashi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What does the term "play it by ear" mean?
I heard this after a date ended on the t.v show BLIND DATE
2015-02-02 06:29:50 · answer #4 · answered by Ema 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The phrase by ear goes back a long way in a figurative sense. It’s a metonym, the substitution of a word by another with which it is closely associated.
It’s in much the same style as Antony’s speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”. He meant this figuratively, asking his audience to lend him the thing their ears contained, their function—in other words to listen to him, to hear him out. In phrases like by ear the process is taken one stage further: not merely the function of hearing but also being able to accurately reproduce a melody one has heard, without needing written music. So we have phrases like he has a good ear for music and she can play anything by ear.
The saying has been taken yet another step further away from anything literal when people use it to mean doing something in an extempore way, without planning, according to circumstances as they arise. If this is the sense in which your Japanese students encounter it, I’m not surprised that they find it puzzling.
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2006-09-12 07:25:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to go ahead without any particular plan. In music, you would be playing an instrument without any written music, so that's where the term comes from.
2006-09-12 07:22:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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"Foul play" means some sort of criminal activity--not an accident, or, in the case of a death, not suicide. If the victim commits suicide, it's not considered "foul play." If the victim has been murdered, it is "foul play."
2016-03-26 23:26:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Play it by ear" means not to have a set and rigid plan, but to remain flexible to whatever situation arises.
i.e. "I may have to work late tonight and may have to cancel on you. We'll play it by ear, and I'll call you in half an hour."
2006-09-12 07:52:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't plan ahead a lot, just deal with things as they happen, or as you hear about them (hence the word "ear").
"Let's play it by ear"
"Let's see what happens and then we'll decide what to do."
2006-09-12 07:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by brainy_ostrich 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Play it by ear is like saying we'll go with the flow and see where this leads then we'll regroup.
2006-09-12 07:20:32 · answer #10 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋