x is to y's taste (liking)
31liking — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, a thing for, admiration, adoration, affection, affinity, agape, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, appreciation, aptitude, aptness, ardency, ardor, attachment, bent, bias …
32liking — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fondness, inclination, preference. See desire, love.Ant., dislike. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deSire, fondness, devotion; see affection 1 , love 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. fondness, fancy,… …
33taste — A personal preference or liking. And, the capacity to tell what is aesthetically excellent or appropriate. Sometimes, the sense of what is proper, or least likely to give offense …
34liking — n preference, favor, favoritism, partiality, bias; fondness, love, attraction, affinity, soft spot, weakness; taste, penchant, eye, appreciation; fancy, inclination, bent, leaning, tendency; predilection, propensity, proclivity, predisposal,… …
35taste — v 1. savor, relish, smack, Inf. smack one s lips, degust, degustate, sip, nibble at, try. 2. experience, meet, encounter, come up against, undergo; partake of, participate in, assay. 3.(all in reference to flavor) perceive, distinguish,… …
36liking — noun Syn: fondness, love, affection, penchant, attachment, taste, passion, preference, partiality, predilection Ant: dislike …
37acquired taste — noun a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience martinis are an acquired taste • Hypernyms: ↑preference, ↑penchant, ↑predilection, ↑taste * * * noun : someone or something that is not easily or immediately liked or… …
38every man to his taste — Cf. STATIUS Silvae II. ii. 73 sua cuique voluptas, everyone has his own pleasures; Fr. chacun à son goût, each to his taste. 1580 LYLY Euphues & his England II. 161 Betweene them it was not determined, but euery one as he lyketh. a 1640 MIDDLETON …
39to taste — ► to taste according to personal liking. Main Entry: ↑taste …
40to one's taste — To one s liking, agreeable to one • • • Main Entry: ↑taste …
