One man's meat is another man's poison

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

But experiences vary and often lead to different results, so that of proverbs it may be said that "what is one man's meat is another man's poison."

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

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

From Where There's a Will by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Every day we see exemplified the truth of the proverb, that "one man's meat is another man's poison."

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

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

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen

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 Fielding, Henry