arbiter of taste
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarbiterandtaste
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arbiter
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑː.bɪ.tər/us/ˈɑːr.bə.t̬ɚ/
someone who makes a judgment, solves an argument, or decides what will ...
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taste
noun
uk/teɪst/us/teɪst/
the flavour of something, or the ability of a person or animal to recognize ...
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(Definition ofarbiterandtastefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If so who is to be thearbiteroftaste?
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I do not offer myself as anarbiteroftaste.
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I do not think that the commission can be judged as the supremearbiteroftaste.
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It is very difficult for a new organisation to set itself up as anarbiteroftaste.
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What it really comes down to is this question of taste and who is to be thearbiteroftaste.
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It is not right for anyone to set himself up as a finalarbiteroftaste, entertainment value, and so on.
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I do not see myself as anarbiteroftasteor morals on the stage.
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Are the ratings to be thearbiteroftasteand quality?
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He might then be setting himself as anarbiteroftasteor morals over and above the elected representatives of the people who are running the library.
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Is it not intolerable that a council of management, elected by nobody, should set itself up as anarbiteroftastesuperior to the locally elected representatives of the people?
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Grodd was named as president and chief executive of the company in 1955 and transformed the company into one that became anarbiteroftaste, style and fashion.
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She shows how even female servants could be regarded as important consumers, even if not arbiters of taste.
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They have effectively become the arbiters of taste; they will decide what particular moneys will be spent on what particular schemes.
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It is not right or fair of us to expect the broadcasters to be the sole arbiters of taste.
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But it is no good our just making ourselves arbiters of taste in this way.
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