There's no accounting for taste
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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
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