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Meaning: (Canada,US,idiomatic,oftencomputing)It mayworkdifferentlyin yoursituation, or bedifferentin yourexperience.The battery lasts a day in my phone, butyour mileage may vary.1993, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, “Basic Data Definition Language (DDL)”, inUnderstanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide, San Francisco, Calif.:Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,→ISBN, section 4.3.4 (Temporary Tables),page74: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.1994,Bob LeVitus,Macintosh System 7.5 for Dummies(For Dummies), San Mateo, Calif.:IDG Books,→ISBN, page328:In other words,your mileage may varyand my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.2012, Jessica Addams, Andrew Miller, “Modern Wolf Mythology: The Things that ‘Everyone Knows’”, inBetween Dog and Wolf: Understanding the Connection and the Confusion, Wenatchee, Wash.: Dogwise Publishing,→ISBN:We pause here to emphasize thatwith animals, there are no absolutes.[…]We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, "your mileage may vary."2015November 12,Daniel Mallory Ortberg,Emily Yoffe, “Dear Prudie, from Prudie: Emily Yoffe’s advice to her successor, Mallory Ortberg”, inSlate[1], archived fromthe originalon7 February 2018:Mallory Ortberg:[…]The advice game is the ultimateyour-mileage-may-varyexercise—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.; (Canada,US,idiomatic)Used to express a possibledifferenceintaste: this is just myopinion, your opinion may be different.I think that red dress looks really good on you, butyour mileage may vary, of course.2017April 12, Brian Truitt, “Review: ‘Fate’ is furious enough to excite the faithful”, inUSA Today[2], archived fromthe originalon6 September 2018:Your mileage may varywhen it comes to the over-the-top carnage and in-your-face machismo, but it’s impressive just how bonkersFate[The Fate of the Furious] is, like a litter of kittens hopped up on grade-A catnip.2018August 31, Leslie Wu, “Mobile Hotel Rooms are the New Home away from Home”, inForbes[3], archived fromthe originalon1 September 2018: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 (althoughyour mileage may varyas to how much you really enjoy that interaction with customs or gate agents).
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