APAD: To each your own

Definition

   Different people have varying preferences.

 

Examples

   1) At the restaurant, there is a wide variety of dishes and beverages on the

   menu, so feel free to choose what you like; to each your own.

 

   2) She enjoys spending her weekends hiking in the mountains, while he prefers

   to relax by the beach. But, as they say, to each their own.

 

Etymology

   The phrase has an unclear origin, but it has been in use since the 16th

   century and likely evolved over time.

 

Synonyms

   everyone possesses their unique taste, live and let live, agree to disagree

 

- englishdaily626.com [edited]

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My old friend, Mr. Zhao, had never gone to college but was nonetheless gifted,

daring, and above all extremely hard-working. He taught himself the laws and

argued for years the pension case for 800 HeBei laborers who built the 108

interstate in the 1960s and won in 2014. After retiring from farming, he built

and rented out three houses on his large family estate near town. Today, 80

years old, when many of his contemporaries are on life-support, he is still

strong as an ox and works as a 24/7 live-in caregiver.

 

It baffled everyone, therefore, how he managed to raise a hopeless goldbrick son

with a gambling yen who needed one week of mah-jong to recharge after a month of

work.

 

Only lately had he given up trying to beat the laziness out of Junior. It was

futile, he told me, after nagging him into weeding the family cabbage patch.

Junior had sworn it was an accident but it sure was convenient for him: in one

stroke, his chemical wiped out both the weeds and the vegetables and they said

it would take the soil at least three years to bear anything. To each their own,

Mr. Zhao finally accepted.