Meaning of your mileage may vary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. It may work differently in your situation, or be different in your experience.
   Canada, US, idiomatic, often
2. Used to express a possible difference in taste: this is just my opinion, your opinion may be different.
   Canada, US, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary.”

“When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely—your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.”

“In other words, your mileage may vary and my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.”

“We pause here to emphasize that with animals, there are no absolutes. […] We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, "your mileage may vary."”

“Mallory Ortberg: […] The advice game is the ultimate your-mileage-may-vary exercise—do you have a feeling for when someone is looking for (or needs) a gentle smack to return them to their senses, a bit of empathy, a dose of humor? It’s a tricky balance, I think, between writing something entertaining for your many readers and trying to be genuinely helpful to the original writer.”

“I think that red dress looks really good on you, but your mileage may vary, of course.”

“Your mileage may vary when it comes to the over-the-top carnage and in-your-face machismo, but it’s impressive just how bonkers Fate [The Fate of the Furious] is, like a litter of kittens hopped up on grade-A catnip.”

“The privatization of luxury space in planes, trains and automobiles have certainly enhanced our ability to keep to ourselves on the road (see the rise of personal pods at airports for a recent example of the lengths people will go to for solitude). And as those spaces get increasingly automated, human interaction is becoming increasingly limited (although your mileage may vary as to how much you really enjoy that interaction with customs or gate agents).”

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