Meat and masse never hindred no man. 1817 SCOTT Rob Roy III. ii. ‘What the devil are
ye in sic a hurry for?’ said Garschattachin; ‘meat and mass never hindered wark.’ 1893 R.
L. STEVENSON 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 drinkOne man’s MEAT is another man’s poisonCf. 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 T. WHYTHORNE 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 M. PRIOR 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 TROLLOPE Autobiography x. It is more true of novels
than perhaps of anything else, that one man’s food is another man’s poison. 1986 J. S.
SCOTT Knife between Ribs xvi. ‘I don’t see what he sees in her.’ ‘One man’s meat is
another man’s poison.’ 2000 Washington Post 9 Mar. C2 If one man’s meat is another
man’s poison, then by the same token one man’s joke is another man’s snooze.
idiosyncrasy; tastemeat see also you BUY land you buy stones; GOD never sends mouths but He sends meat;
GOD sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks; the NEARER the bone, the sweeter the meat.
medicine see LAUGHTER is the best medicine.meddler see LAY-OVERS for meddlers.Do not MEET troubles halfwayThere are a number of sayings along similar lines, e.g. never TROUBLE trouble till
trouble troubles you. Cf. SENECA Epistle XIII.X. quid iuvat dolori suo occurrere? what help
is it to run out to meet your troubles?; 1598–9 SHAKESPEARE Much Ado about Nothing I. i.
82 Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you
encounter it.
1896 J. C. HUTCHESON Crown & Anchor xvi. I can’t see the use of anticipating the