one man's trash is another man's treasure

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Etymology

One early use is in Hector Urquhart's Popular Tales of the West Highlands (1860s) where he wrote "one man's rubbish may be another's treasure".

Proverb

one man's trash is another man's treasure

  1. What is useless to one person is valuable to another.

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