different strokes for different folks

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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.

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. proverb

This chiefly US expression was used as a slogan in the early 1970s in a Texan drug abuse project.

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different strokes for different folks

phr. different things please different people. Do whatever you like. Different strokes for different folks.

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That's definitely not a criticism of Nicky Byrne's wedding because it's a completely individual decision - it's different strokes for different folks and there's no right or wrong way to do it and his wedding his going to be amazing too.

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Well, as the saying goes, different strokes for different folks.

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There are different strokes for different folks look down the lanes of your local pool and you'll see them all: backstroke, breast stroke, butterfly and freestyle.

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