Etymology

one man's trash is another man's treasure

Today it means: What is useless to one person is valuable to another. Full definition →

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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".http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/60429/ddg#60472

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