matter of opinion, a

Idioms  

1. A question on which people hold different views, as in I rather like that design, but really, it's a matter of opinion, or The quality of that new stock issue is a matter of opinion. This expression was first recorded in 1843.

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Example Sentences

Times Opinion writers discuss the news on “Matter of Opinion,” a new podcast.

From New York Times

In 2005, Navasky won the George K. Polk Book Award for “A Matter of Opinion,” a memoir and a passionate defense of free expression.

From Seattle Times

Either way, to subject the lives and livelihoods of these people to the will of the majority, and to determine their rights based on the strength of their get-out-the-vote efforts, is to reduce their humanity to a mere matter of opinion—a legally binding opinion.

From Slate

To all this, Favreau lamely replied that it was a matter of opinion�a mere statement by Justice Dorion that, "had he been in my place, he would have exercised his discretion in a different fashion."

From Time Magazine Archive

What neither is nor is not, that which fluctuates and changes, is the subject matter of opinion, a state between knowledge and ignorance.

From Project Gutenberg