词汇 | one man-s meat |
词源 | one man’s meat. The complete saying is one man’s meat is an- other’s poison; that is, what is good for one person can be bad for another. A slight variation is one man’s meat is another man’s poison. American humorist E. B. White wrote the One Man’s Meat Department for Harper’s magazine from 1938 to 1943 and also wrote the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town essay columns. |
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