Jun 28, 2013 07:21
10 yrs ago
English term

You have so quick an ear.

English to Polish Other History Memoirs of a soldier
Tonight we used our guns, comrade lieutenant. You have so quick an ear. How many, do you think, were made to drop into the pit tonight?

You have so quick an ear - You are the first one to hear that?

I guess it's an old idiom, Google doesn't help. Any guesses?

Thanks!

(It's a text from 50's)
Proposed translations (Polish)
3 +1 Masz dobry słuch.

Discussion

George BuLah (X) Jun 28, 2013:
George BuLah (X) Jun 28, 2013:
właśnie też to znalazłem... już agreeuje :)...
1653, was buried within the precincts of St. Botolph, near Aldersgate. Cxutterbuck, Richard, born at Rodborough in 1638, though perfectly blind, had so quick an ear, that he could hear the fine sand of an hour-glass fall, and such exquisite feeling, that he could perform almost any sort of curious work, such as making heads for canes, and all sorts of string musical instruments
Andrzej Mierzejewski Jun 28, 2013:
:-) .
geopiet Jun 28, 2013:
oczywiście
Andrzej Mierzejewski Jun 28, 2013:
Zdaje się, że potwierdzasz moje przypuszczenie.
geopiet Jun 28, 2013:
re: Google doesn't help a jednak - http://goo.gl/q9o9d

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Richard, born at Rodborough in 1638, though perfectly blind, had so quick an ear, that he could hear the fine sand of an hour-glass fall -

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no breed of dogs have so quick an ear or so keen a sense of smell as mastiff

Proposed translations

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Masz dobry słuch.

Na moje ucho, ale nie dam sobie odciąć uszu, że się nie mylę ;-)
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agree George BuLah (X) : !!! :)
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