单词 | one man's meat is another man's poison |
释义 | > as lemmasone man's meat is another man's poison c. In proverbs and phrases, esp. one man's meat is another man's poison.sweet meat will have sour sauce: see sauce n. Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > one man's meat is another man's poison one man's meat is another man's poison1616 a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iv Swete meate hath soure sauce. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iv. sig. B God neuer sendeth mouthe, but he sendeth meat. c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 203 Þat which iz on bodies meat iz an oþerz poizon. 1604 Plato's Cup sig. B4 That ould moth-eaten Prouerbe..One mans meate, is another mans poyson. 1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 127 One mans meate is another mans poyson. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3v/1 Whats one mans poyson Signior, Is anothers meat or drinke. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. ix. 117 Why must one man's meat be another man's poison? 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xv. 296 After that she acknowledged that ‘one man's meat might be another man's poison’. 1902 J. Conrad End of Tether xiv, in Youth 370 One man's poison, another man's meat. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 701 In the free, spontaneous self, one man's meat is truly another man's poison. And therefore you can't draw any average..unless you are going to poison everybody. 1997 Publican 27 Jan. 21/1 Judging pubs is a subjective exercise, and I'm afraid the old cliche, ‘one man's meat is another man's poison’ fully applies. < as lemmas |
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