carry a tune
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She could carry a tune and submitted a “sort of soft” song for her audition but was told she needed to belt out the lyrics to play frontwoman Daisy Jones.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023
Her grandmother was the first person to recognize that she could carry a tune, though it was a childhood trip to Dollywood, she says, that convinced her she wanted to be a musician.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
What of that last category, those for whom singing is simply something to be enjoyed, regardless of whether they can carry a tune in the car or at karaoke?
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
I said, ‘Yeah, I can carry a tune.’
From Fox News • Jan. 23, 2022
They had to carry a tune as they hauled enormous loads of rock up the hill.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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