There's no accounting for taste

1. Personal preferences are not debatable. This saying is a version of a Latin proverb, De gustibus non est disputandum.

Example Sentences

If there’s no accounting for taste, there’s really no accounting for kids’ tastes.

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I’d say that does this vibrant and intelligent movie a disservice, but then, as you’ll find at every film festival, there’s no accounting for taste.

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There’s a not-uninteresting frisson of Chinese cynical realists like Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang in her waxen tableaus, though her most direct antecedent is the Scottish commercial artist Jack Vettriano, another painter of sentimental erotica who proves there’s no accounting for taste.

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In these auctions there’s no accounting for taste — only paying a price for it.

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There’s no accounting for taste in a new cycle of “Worst Cooks in America.”

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