tin ear

For a man who was often lionized on the right, Sharon had a tin ear on economics.

The uniform response to him is that he has a tin ear, that he is blind to ordinary people, that he is a fool, et cetera.

Blair himself had a famously tin ear for the old-time grass roots faction.

While McCain was at his most gracious, it was his audience who had the tin-ear.

Now git out o' the way o' the dust, all of yez, or Ill put a tin ear on ye!'

He knew The Oskaloosa Kid well, and he knew him as an ex-pug with a pock marked face, a bullet head, and a tin ear.

Most all of them threatened him with a rectangular head, a tin ear, or a watch pocket under the eye He didn't seem to care much.

Again Bill pinched the sculptor, who inclined his tin ear for counsel.

Save for the twisted nose and the tin ear, he was an undeniably fine specimen.