one man's meat is another man's poison

English

Alternative forms

• one man's fish is another man's poison
• one man's fish is another man's poisson

Proverb

one man's meat is another man's poison

1. People have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another.

Translations

people have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another

• Arabic: مَصَائِبُ قَوْمٍ عِنْدَ قَوْمٍ فَوَائِدُ (maṣāʔibu qawmin ʕinda qawmin fawāʔidu)
• Czech: někdo má rád vdolky, jiný zase holky
• Finnish: yhden herkku on toisen myrkky
• German: der eine isst gern Wurst, der andere grüne Seife
• German Low German: den enen sien Uul is den annern sien Nachtigal (literally “one man's owl is another's nightingale”)
• Jamaican Creole: what a joke fi yuh, a death to me
• Polish: kto co lubi
• Russian: что ру́сскому хорошо́, то не́мцу — смерть (ru) (što rússkomu xorošó, to némcu — smertʹ, literally “a good thing for a Russian is death for the German”)
• Spanish: nunca llueve a gusto de todos
• Swedish: den enes död är den andres bröd (literally “the death of one, the bread of the other”)

See also

• one man's loss is another man's gain
• one man's trash is another man's treasure
• there's no accounting for taste