Play it by ear also means to decide what to do at the last minute instead of making detailed plans.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

In the beginning, Special English had one fifteen-minute news show that was broadcast to Africa and Asia once a day.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight,Tuesday, the eighth of May.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

" The jester thought for a minute and said, "Well,they are all wise men, but have different ideas about the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theaters darkened for a minute in honor of Arthur Miller.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

On Wednesday,BP officials came to the White House for what many people expected would be a twenty minute meeting.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

"It's a passion for the sport, it's like,you can be that rock god for a minute, without playing anything.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The fifteen-minute flight ended with a soft splash into the ocean about five hundred kilometers from Cape Canaveral.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour at the very last minute.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

One of the most famous music videos ever on MTV was a fourteen minute piece from Michael Jackson.

VOA: special.2011.08.05

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

He was the end of the twenty minute drum solo. It was goodnight Haight-Ashbury, hello Asbury Park."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Today,Special English broadcasts thirty-minute programs by shortwave and medium wave sixteen times a day around the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.16