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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

Every one to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one man's poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may be valued very highly by another.

From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison

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

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

As Euripides says, one man's meat is another man's poison morally as well as physically.

From Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard

The trite proverb, "What is one man's meat is another man's poison," is a genuine truth, and is exemplified by hundreds of instances.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Well, what’s one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen