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• play (something) by ear — 1. to deal with a situation as it develops and without a plan. I m not sure if I can go bowling or not, I ll just have to play it by ear. Usage notes: sometimes used with other verbs: I write by ear, and rarely with any exact notion of how I want …   New idioms dictionary

• Play Something Country — Infobox Single Name = Play Something Country Cover size = Caption = Artist = Brooks Dunn from Album = Hillbilly Deluxe Released = 2005 Format = CD single Digital download Recorded = Genre = Country Length = 3:14 Label = Arista Nashville Writer =… …   Wikipedia

• play something back (to somebody) — ˌplay sthˈback (to sb) derived to play music, film, etc. that has been recorded on a tape, video, etc • Play that last section back to me again. related noun ↑playback Main entry: ↑playderived …   Useful english dictionary

• play (something) by ear — play (sth) by ˈear idiom to play music by remembering how it sounds rather than by reading it Main entry: ↑earidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• play something back — play sounds that one has recently recorded, esp. to monitor recording quality …   Useful english dictionary

• play something down — MAKE LIGHT OF, make little of, gloss over, de emphasize, downplay, understate; soft pedal, tone down, diminish, trivialize, underrate, underestimate, undervalue; disparage, belittle, scoff at, sneer at, shrug off; …   Useful english dictionary

• play something up — EMPHASIZE, accentuate, call attention to, point up, underline, highlight, spotlight, foreground, feature, stress, accent. → play * * * emphasize the extent or importance of something the mystery surrounding his death was played up by the media *… …   Useful english dictionary

• play something down — pretend that something is less important than it in fact is. → play …   English new terms dictionary

• play something up — emphasize the extent or importance of something. → play …   English new terms dictionary

• play something by ear — 1》 perform music without having seen a score. 2》 (play it by ear) informal proceed instinctively according to circumstances rather than according to rules or a plan. → play …   English new terms dictionary

• play something by ear — 1) to deal with a situation without having a plan, by reacting to things as they happen 2) to play music by hearing and remembering it, not by reading it …   English dictionary