Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one man's trash is another man's treasure

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: one -man's -trash is an-oth-er -man's trea-sure
IPA

43

Scrabble Score

33

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

proverb

What is useless to one person is valuable to another.

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

Inflected Forms

one man's meat is another man's poison (alternative) one man's loss is another man's gain (alternative)

Phrases

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

Frequently Paired Words

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

Questions

What does one man's trash is another man's treasure mean?: What is useless to one person is valuable to another.
Where does one man's trash is another man's treasure come from?: 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

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