be to one's taste

См. также в других словарях:

• to one's taste — To one s liking, agreeable to one • • • Main Entry: ↑taste …   Useful english dictionary

• so bad one can taste it — mod. very much, indeed. □ I want that car so bad I can taste it. □ He had to get to Philadelphia so bad he could taste it …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• taste — [tāst] vt. tasted, tasting [ME tasten < OFr taster, to handle, touch, taste < VL * tastare, prob. < * taxitare, freq. of L taxare, to feel, touch sharply, judge of, freq. of tangere: see TACT] 1. Obs. to test by touching 2. to test the… …   English World dictionary

• one's cup of tea — see under ↑tea • • • Main Entry: ↑cup one s cup of tea (informal) What is to one s taste or appeals to one • • • Main Entry: ↑tea …   Useful english dictionary

• Taste — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Taste >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 taste taste flavor gust gusto savor Sgm: N 1 gout gout relish Sgm: N 1 sapor| sapor| sapidity Sgm: N 1 twang …   English dictionary for students

• taste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. savor; sample. n. flavor; tasting, morsel, sample; predilection, relish, preference; judgment.See taste, choice. II Sense of flavor Nouns 1. taste, tastefulness; good or cultivated taste; delicacy,… …   English dictionary for students

• taste — tastable, tasteable, adj. /tayst/, v., tasted, tasting, n. v.t. 1. to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food. 2. to eat or drink a little of: She barely tasted her dinner. 3. to eat or drink… …   Universalium

• Taste — (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of direct chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the… …   Wikipedia

• taste — n 1 Taste, flavor, savor, tang, relish, smack can all mean the property of a substance which makes it perceptible to the gustatory sense. Taste not only is the most inclusive of these terms but it gives no suggestion of a specific character or… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• taste bud — one of numerous small, flask shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste. [1885 90] * * * ▪ anatomy  small organ located on the tongue in terrestrial vertebrates (vertebrate) that… …   Universalium

• Taste (sociology) — Taste in the general sense is the same as preference.Taste is also a sociological concept in that it is not just personal but subject to social pressures, and a particular taste can be judged good or bad . This theory was first put forward… …   Wikipedia