play it by ear

2023. 6. 23. 23:20ใ†English Idioms

Play it by ear means improsvise as one goes alog

"Playing it by ear" is an expression that means making decisions or taking actions as you go along, without having a set plan in advance. Imagine you're playing a game, but instead of following a rulebook or a specific strategy, you just make up the rules and actions as you play.

 

Let's say you and your friends are playing a pretend adventure game. Usually, you would have a plan, like going to certain places or doing specific tasks. But when you decide to play it by ear, you make up the adventure as you go along! You might imagine you're exploring a magical forest, and you get to decide what happens next. Maybe you encounter a talking animal or discover a hidden treasure, and you can decide how the story unfolds.

 

In real life, playing it by ear means being flexible and adapting to different situations. It's like when you're playing with your toys or drawing a picture, and you don't have a specific plan in mind. You use your creativity and imagination to come up with new ideas as you go.

 

So, playing it by ear is all about being open to new possibilities and making decisions as you go along, rather than sticking to a strict plan. It can be exciting and fun, just like playing a game where you create the rules and story as you play!

 

"Playing it by ear"๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ณ„ํš ์—†์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทœ์น™์„œ๋‚˜ ํŠน์ • ์ „๋žต์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทœ์น™๊ณผ ํ–‰๋™์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋‹น์‹ ๊ณผ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์ƒ ์–ด๋“œ๋ฒค์ฒ˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด ๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠน์ • ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๊ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŠน์ • ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ท€๋กœ ์—ฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ชจํ—˜์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์˜ ์ˆฒ์„ ํƒํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์Œ์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ์ผ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

์‹ค์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ ๊ท€๋กœ ์—ฐ์ฃผํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์ ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์žฅ๋‚œ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋†€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ฐฝ์˜๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ท€๋กœ ๋“ฃ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทœ์น™๊ณผ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํฅ๋ฏธ์ง„์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

 

 

 

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