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MEAT and mass never hindered man

a
1628
Proverbs in Scots
no. 134
A mease [mess = serving] of meat hinderit never man.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
273
Meat and mattens hinder no mans journey.
1641
Scottish Proverbs
(STS) no. 644
Meat and masse never hindred no man.
1817
Rob Roy
III. ii.
‘What the devil are ye in sic a hurry for?’ said Garschattachin; ‘meat and mass never hindered wark’.
1893
Catriona
I
. xix.
Meat and mass never hindered man. The mass I cannot afford you, for we are all good Protestants. But the meat I press on your attention.

Christianity
;
food and drink

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One man's MEAT is another man's poison

Cf. LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
IV
. 637
quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum
, what is food to one person may be bitter poison to others.

c
1576
Autobiography
(1961) 203
On bodies meat iz an otherz poizon.
1604
Plato's Cap
B4
That ould moth-eaten Prouerbe .. One mans meate, is another mans poyson.
a
1721
Dialogues of Dead
(1907) 246
May I not nauseate the food which you Covet; and is it not even a Proverb, that what is meat to one Man is Poyson to another.
1883
Autobiography
x.
It is more true of novels than perhaps of anything else, that one man's food is another man's poison.
1986
Knife between Ribs
xvi.
‘I don't see what he sees in her.’ ‘One man's meat is another man's poison.’

idiosyncrasy
;
taste

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