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• One man's meat is another man's poison
  One man's meat is another man's poison

  What is good for one person may be bad for another; what is pleasant to one person may be unpleasant to another.
• one man's meat is another man's poison
  one man's meat is another man's poison

  What is good for or enjoyed by one is not necessarily so for someone else. This adage, first recorded in 1576, is so well known it is often shortened, as in Pat loves to travel to remote areas but that's not for Doris—one man's meat, you know. Also see no accounting for tastes.

One man's meat is another man's poison

Cultural  

1. What is good for one person may be bad for another; what is pleasant to one person may be unpleasant to another.

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one man's meat is another man's poison Idioms  

1. What is good for or enjoyed by one is not necessarily so for someone else. This adage, first recorded in 1576, is so well known it is often shortened, as in Pat loves to travel to remote areas but that's not for Doris—one man's meat, you know. Also see no accounting for tastes.

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Example Sentences

That which is one man's meat is another man's poison.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

With reference to this last maxim, bear in mind that "what is one man's meat is another man's poison."

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

There is nothing that is more emphasized to the pathologist than that one man's meat is another man's poison.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

"That which is one man's meat, is another man's poison," is a proposition that ought to be allowed in all particulars, where the opinion is concerned, as well as in eating and drinking.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

But what is one man's meat is another man's poison, according to the homely adage, and in this case what made Frank so happy made—Damase miserable.

From The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)