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bad ear

NOUN
tin ear
Synonyms


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And I had a real bad ear ache and a sore throat.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 2022

I told him I’d heard the bad ear spring back to life.

From Slate Oct. 13, 2021

When the venerable poet arrived at the increasingly disastrous dinner, Lowell kept moving him from chair to chair, allegedly because Frost had a bad ear but effectively making "sustained conversation impossible."

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man had one bad eye and one bad ear and a bad heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Can you confirm the name of the patient with the shrapnel wound and the bad ear, Miss Vilkas?”

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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