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to each his own
Idioms and Phrases
One has a right to one's personal preferences, as in I'd never pick that color, but to each his own . Versions of this maxim appeared in the late 1500s but the modern wording was first recorded in 1713.Example Sentences
A mesmerizing portrait of a Florentine lady in a flowing sheer veil, attributed to the early-16th-century Italian painter Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, is accompanied by a decorative panel with the Latin inscription “To each his own mask” and a trompe l’oeil face covering to match.
“To each his own,” Campbell said about the decision to go for the first down.
“To each his own, and we’ve got to stay focused. We’ve got plenty of things that we’ve got to get better at and be ready to handle that have to do with us, and if any of our focus is going anywhere else then that’s not the big thing for USC.”
In the post, Yair Netanyahu wrote, “to each his own cup of tea.”
“He was just outside, saying he didn’t appreciate the flag being out. And she just said, ‘Well, to each his own,’ you know, ‘It’s my business. And I want the flag out,’” Dolezal recalled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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