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What (who) is Joneses - definition

2007 ENGLISH TV SERIES OR PROGRAM

Where are the Joneses?; Where are the Joneses

Joneses

2009 AMERICAN FILM DIRECTED BY DERRICK BORTE

Joneses

also Jones

If you say that someone is keeping up with the Joneses, you mean that they are doing something in order to show that they have as much money as other people, rather than because they really want to do it.

Many people were holding down three jobs just to keep up with the Joneses.

PHRASE: V inflects

Joneses

2009 AMERICAN FILM DIRECTED BY DERRICK BORTE

Joneses

¦ plural noun (in phr. keep up with the Joneses) strive not be outdone by one's neighbours.

Origin

C19: from the surname Jones.

Keeping up with the Joneses

IDIOM ABOUT WANTING TO BE AS WELL-OFF AS ONE'S NEIGHBORS

The Jones'; Keeping up with the Joneses"; Keeping up with the joneses; Keeping up with the Gateses; Keeping up with the Gates; Keep up with the Joneses; Keeping Up with the Joneses

Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses

Wikipedia

Where Are the Joneses?

Where Are the Joneses? is a 2007 British daily online filmed sitcom created by the Imagination Group and Baby Cow Productions, sponsored by Ford of Europe, and promotion by digital specialists Hot Cherry.

The script of each two- to five-minute episode is a collaboratively written by viewers via wikis and social networking sites such as mySpace, Facebook, Flickr and blogs, with each character having their own Twitter feed. The faux-documentary style video is filmed daily on location and is also available via YouTube. The first episode was released on 15 June 2007.

The plot follows Dawn Jones, who discovers in the opening episode that she is the child of a sperm donor and follows her travels around Europe to find her 26 siblings. It stars Emma Fryer in the lead role, with Neil Edmond as Ian, the first brother she locates and who travels with her.

Unusually, the production is released under a Creative Commons 'Attribution-Share alike' licence, allowing it to be freely re-edited, even commercially, and press coverage has considered it as 'Wikipedia-like' in allowing anyone to edit and contribute to the storyline. The internet-only release on the back of the current mania for online social networking has also generated substantial independent blog review and analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where Are the Joneses?

Examples of use of Joneses

1. I‘m not keeping up with the Joneses who drive the big trucks, but the Joneses who grow organic carrots and drive old bangers like ours.

2. The Joneses have learned from experience, as well.

3. Quite simply, no one bothers keeping up with the Joneses in Vanuatu.

4. There has always been a terrific amount of keeping up with the Joneses.

5. It is no longer enough to keep up with the Joneses.