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.
different strokes for different folks
see under no accounting for tastes.
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.
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.
different strokes for different folks
phr. different things please different people. Do whatever you like. Different strokes for different folks.
no accounting for tastes, there is no
Each to his or her own preference. This locution for the inexplicability of likes (and dislikes) began as “there is no disputing about tastes” in the sixteenth century. It was changed to “accounting for” by the early nineteenth century. Anthony Trollope, in the last of his Barset Chronicles (1867), said of Major Grantly as a suitor, “There was . . . no accounting for tastes.” A similar mid-twentieth-century phrase that is on its way to clichédom is different strokes for different folks, which originated in American regional slang. All these are synonymous with the much older proverb, One man’s meat is another’s poison, originating in Roman times and proverbial since about 1700. See also to each his own.