one man's meat is another man's poison

English

Alternative forms

• one man's fish is another man's poison
• one man's fish is another man's poisson

Proverb

one man's meat is another man's poison

1. People have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another.

Translations

people have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another

• French: le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres (fr) (some people's misfortune is other people's fortune)
• German Low German: den enen sien Uul is den annern sien Nachtigal ("one man's owl is another's nightingale")
• Russian: что ру́сскому хорошо́, то не́мцу — смерть (ru) (što rússkomu xorošó, to némcu — smertʹ) (a good thing for a Russian is death for the German (foreigner))
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• Spanish: nunca llueve a gusto de todos
• Swedish: Den enes död är den andres bröd. (sv) (The death of one, the bread of the other)