Meaning of music to someone's ears | Babel Free

Definitions

A spoken expression or a sound which is pleasing; specifically, some good news, or welcome information or remarks.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] Sweete Princesse of my life (said he) what Trophees, what Triumph, what Monuments, what Historis may ever make my fame yeeld so sweete a Musicke to my eares, […]”

The New Arcadia

“The time vvas once, vvhen thou vn-vrg'd vvouldſt vovv, / That neuer vvords vvere muſicke to thine eare, / That neuer obiect pleaſing in thine eye, / That neuer touch vvell vvelcome to thy hand, / That neuer meat ſvveet-ſauour'd in thy taſte, / Vnleſſe I ſpake, or look'd, or touch'd, or caru'd to thee.”

“[T]he hearing of ſuch conjugal faithfulneſs, vvill be Muſick to all chaſte ears […]”

“[T]he earnestness and passion with which the young man uttered his feelings, made music to her ears: […]”

“People who had an ax to grind, or people who for any reason wanted to get on the soft side of him, called him The Christian—a phrase whose delicate flattery was music to his ears, and whose capital T was such an enchanting and vivid object to him that he could see it when it fell out of a person's mouth even in the dark.”

“And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its traffic was music to his ears, before we came to one of those political palaces which permit themselves to be included in the list of ordinary clubs.”

“"We should aim for a lower ambition," [Richard] Dannatt said. […] Not what you might call music to his boss's ears.”

“This will be music to the ears of contractors, manufacturers and suppliers, who have long argued that they cannot safeguard jobs if they have to live from year to year.”

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