There is no accounting for tastes.

There is no accounting for tastes. :


Give a good account of yourself = Give a bad account of yourself

Make a favourable (or unfavourable) impression through your performance or actions.



Settle accounts with someone = Square accounts with someone

Pay money owed to someone.

Have revenge on someone.



There is no accounting for tastes.

It’s impossible to explain why different people like different things, especially those things which the speaker considers unappealing….proverb.

Since the late 18th century, this has been the usual English form of the Latin expression de gustibus non est disputandum….there is no disputing about tastes.

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