kinek a pap, kinek a papné
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kinek (“for some”) + a (“the”) + pap (“priest”) + kinek (“for some”) + a (“the”) + papné (“wife of the priest”) Ellipsis of kinek a pap, kinek a papné tetszik.[1] Approximately: “some like the priest, others the wife of the priest”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Phrase
[edit]- there's no accounting for taste, to each his own, different strokes for different folks, one man's meat is another man's poison
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ kinek a pap, kinek a papné in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.