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  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

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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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One man's meat is another man's poison; one man's duty is not his neighbour's.

From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler

We do not require to be told, in the words which shocked Lord Chesterfield but do not annoy a humble admirer of his, that "One man's meat is another man's poison."

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

One man's meat is another man's poison all the world over and for all time; and there can be no progress, no wholesale and beneficial change in the ways of life, without much incidental tribulation.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent

One man's meat is another man's poison; that's a true saying.

From One Third Off by Tony Sarg

One man's meat is another man's poison, as they say.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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

From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

Does not the proverb say that one man's meat is another man's poison?

From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote

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

From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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 Henry Fielding

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 Joseph Lewis