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O que significa No accounting for tastes! ?
O que significa No accounting for tastes! ?
In the following sentences by Alice in Wonderland
'What is the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!'
'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the Gryphon went on. 'Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?'
'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, 'Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?'
'What is the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle interrupted, 'if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever heard!'
'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and Alice was only too glad to do so.
'Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the Gryphon went on. 'Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?'
'Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, 'Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?'
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15 jan 2020
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Literally: logic/calculation can not explain a preference
Connotations: Your preferences are suprising/nonsense. I would have chosen differently. I will not try to change your mind.
He wants her to listen to him. She wants to listen to someone else. He disagrees with that, but he will let her do what she wants without argument.
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People like what they like - it can't be explained
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- Inglês (EUA)
Literally: logic/calculation can not explain a preference
Connotations: Your preferences are suprising/nonsense. I would have chosen differently. I will not try to change your mind.
He wants her to listen to him. She wants to listen to someone else. He disagrees with that, but he will let her do what she wants without argument.
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