There's no accounting for taste
Personal preferences are not debatable. This saying is a version of a Latin proverb, De gustibus non est disputandum.
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Words nearby There's no accounting for taste
Theresa, Thérèse de Lisieux, There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, There's method in his madness, There's more than one way to skin a cat, There's no accounting for taste, there's no accounting for tastes, There's no fool like an old fool, There's no place like home, there's no smoke without fire, there's no telling
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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