there's no accounting for taste

idiom

informal

: there is no way to understand why some people like something while other people do not

I don't see why they liked the movie, but there's no accounting for taste.

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As the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste. —

Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021

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