different strokes (for different folks)
different strokes (for different folks)
Different people will like or do different things. My mom loves cooking, but I hate being in the kitchen—different strokes for different folks, I guess.
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Different strokes for different folks.
Prov. Different people like different things.; Different people live in different ways. My neighbor spends all his free time working in his garden. I would never want to do that, but different strokes for different folks.
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different strokes for different folks
see under no accounting for tastes.
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different strokes for different folks
You say different strokes for different folks to mean that people are all different and have different needs and desires. The federal government has, by tradition, been respectful of local standards in local communities — different strokes for different folks, as they say.
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different strokes for different folks
different things please or are effective with different people. proverbThis chiefly US expression was used as a slogan in the early 1970s in a Texan drug abuse project.
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different ˈstrokes (for different ˈfolks)
(American English) used to say that different people like or need different thingsFarlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
different strokes for different folks
phr. different things please different people. Do whatever you like. Different strokes for different folks.
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