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What does play by ear mean?
What does play by ear mean?
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It originally refers to music. To "play by ear" is opposed to playing by sight by reading a sheet of music. It implies something improvised and spontaneous.
So if I said "let's play it by ear" I would mean "let's figure things out as we go, without a fixed plan."
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