кому поп, кому попадья, а кому попова дочка

• КОМУ ПОП, КОМУ ПОПАДЬЯ, А КОМУ ПОПОВА ДОЧКА; КТО ЛЮБИТ ПОПА, (А) КТО ПОПАДЬЮ, (А) КТО ПОПОВУ ДОЧКУ both obs

[saying; often only the first half of the saying is used]

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⇒ people enjoy different things, everyone has his own taste:

- ≈ every man to his taste;

- each to his own taste;

- there is no accounting for tastes;

- one marts meat is another marts poison.

     ♦ "На вкусы нет закона: кто любит попа, а кто попадью, говорит пословица" (Гоголь 3). "Every man to his taste; what's one man's meat is another man's poison, as the proverb has it" (3b).