tin ear


1. an inability to appreciate music

2. a person who does not appreciate music or has poor taste in music
my cousin had a major case of tin ear as a kid.
a person with a tin ear is a hearing person who is accustomed to the sound of a deaf person’s voice, and is better at understanding deaf people speak than most other hearing people.
her brother is deaf and has speech, so she has a tin ear.

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