ízlések és pofonok

Hungarian

Etymology

ízlés (“taste, preference”) +‎ -ek (plural suffix) +‎ és (“and”) +‎ pofon (“slap in the face”) +‎ -ok (plural suffix). Literally: “tastes and slaps in the face”. Ellipsis of ízlések és pofonok különbözőek/különböznek (literally “tastes and slaps in the face are different [they can vary per each person]”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈiːzleːʃɛk eːʃ ˈpofonok]

Phrase

ízlések és pofonok

  1. (idiomatic) there's no accounting for taste, to each his own, different strokes for different folks, one man's meat is another man's poison

Synonyms

References
  1. Ízlés in T. Litovkina, Anna. Magyar közmondások nagyszótára (’Dictionary of Hungarian Proverbs’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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