"one man's trash is another man's treasure" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [English]

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 Head templates: {{head|en|proverb}} one man's trash is another man's treasure
  1. What is useless to one person is valuable to another. Synonyms: one man's meat is another man's poison, one man's loss is another man's gain Related terms: there's no accounting for taste Translations (Translations): 物之貴賤,因人而異 (Chinese Mandarin), 物之贵贱 (Chinese Mandarin), 因人而异 (wù zhī guìjiàn, yīnrén'éryì) (Chinese Mandarin), yhden roska on toisen aarre (Finnish), o lixo de um homem é o tesouro de outro (Portuguese), что для одного человека мусор, то для другого - сокровище (što dlja odnovo čeloveka musor, to dlja drugovo - sokrovišče) (Russian), la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-one_man's_trash_is_another_man's_treasure-en-proverb-5zfVl1LC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs

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