different strokes for different folks

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. Different people like different things; there's no accounting for taste.

Word forms

different strokes for different folks

Etymology

1950s US origin, popularized by Muhammad Ali (1966) and later the song "Everyday People" by Sly Stone (1968).

Related words

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