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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

Again, as to what are called nuisances, to wit offensive smells, sounds, etc., it is more difficult to determine, on the ground that one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William

But what's one man's meat is another man's poison.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Well, to be sure, what's one man's meat is another man's poison, and the same is altogether as true of women."—"

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

While it is true that it is "an ill wind that blows no good," it is also true that what is "one man's meat is another man's poison."

From An Atheist Manifesto by Lewis, Joseph

Every day we see exemplified the truth of the proverb, that "one man's meat is another man's poison."

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir