English Explanatory Dictionary

one man's trash is another man's treasure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. What is useless to one person is valuable to another.

Word forms

one man's trash is another man's treasure one man's meat is another man's poison one man's loss is another man's gain

Etymology

One early use is in Hector Urquhart's Popular Tales of the West Highlands (1860s) where he wrote "one man's rubbish may be another's treasure".http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60429/ddg#60472

Related words

there's no accounting for taste it's not a bug, it's a feature
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