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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