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chacun à son goût en · X

Etymology

Mutation of the French à chacun son goût (“to each his own taste”), typically heard amongst Laurentian, Quebecois and Louisiana Francophones. The well-known aria by this name in the Strauss opera Die Fledermaus may have helped establish the mutation.

Meanings

  1. Used to acknowledge that different people have different tastes or preferences.

Forms

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à chacun son goût alternative lexicographic

Relateds

de gustibus non disputandum est

Synonyms

to each his own · there's no accounting for taste