{"id":4286,"date":"2015-06-09T14:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2015-06-09T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:21:23","slug":"one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"\u10e1\u10d0\u10d8\u10dc\u10e2\u10d4\u10e0\u10d4\u10e1\u10dd \u10e1\u10d8\u10e2\u10e7\u10d5\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10d2\u10d0\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0\u10d7\u10e5\u10d5\u10d0\u10db\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \u2013 One man’s trash is another man’s treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Different people have different ideas about what’s valuable.<\/p>\n

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Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The earliest example I found in Google Books is in Hector Urquhart’s introduction to 1860s\u00a0Popular Tales of the West Highlands<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Practical men may despise the tales, earnest men condemn them as lies, some even consider them wicked ; one refused to write any more for a whole estate ; my best friend says they are all ‘ blethers.’ But\u00a0one man’s rubbish may be another’s treasure<\/strong>, and what is the standard of value in such a pursuit as this?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n