"carry a tune" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "can't carry a tune in a bucket"
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        {
          "ref": "1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 1, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm:",
          "text": "Jenny is named for a singer and Fanny for a beautiful dancer, but mother says they're both misfits, for Jenny can't carry a tune and Fanny's kind of stiff-legged.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Jim Tully, Emmett Lawler, page 209:",
          "text": "Emmett burst forth in song, but his comrade punched him in the side and said, “Lord Sakes, shut up, you can't carry a tune in a bucket.",
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        "To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate relative pitch."
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          "sing"
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          "accurate"
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        "(chiefly in the negative) To produce music, especially to sing, with accurate relative pitch."
      ],
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        "in the negative"
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  "word": "carry a tune"
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        "third-person"
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        "participle",
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