proverb
Meaning 1
What is useless to one person is valuable to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
one man's trash is another man's treasure
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History
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
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 物之貴賤,因人而異 /物之贵贱 — Translations
- Chinese Mandarin: 因人而异 (wù zhī guìjiàn, yīnrén'éryì) — Translations
- Finnish: yhden roska on toisen aarre — Translations
- German: des einen Leid ist des anderen Freud — Translations
- Italian: Ciò che per un uomo è spazzatura per un altro può essere un tesoro. — Translations
- Portuguese: o lixo de um homem é o tesouro de outro — Translations
- Portuguese: lixo para uns, luxo para outros — Translations
- Russian: что для одного человека мусор, то для другого - сокровище (što dlja odnovo čeloveka musor, to dlja drugovo - sokrovišče) — Translations
- Spanish: la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro — Translations