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O que (quem) é keep up with the Joneses - definição

IDIOM ABOUT WANTING TO BE AS WELL-OFF AS ONE'S NEIGHBORS
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  • Comic strip by Pop Momand, 1921.

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.
keep up with the Joneses         
strive not be outdone by one's neighbours.
Keeping Up with the Joneses (comics)         
  • Comic strip by Pop Momand, 1921.
COMIC STRIP
Aloysius McGinis; Clarice McGinis; Julie McGinis; Bella Donna (Keeping Up with the Joneses)
Keeping Up with the Joneses was an American gag-a-day comic strip by Pop Momand that ran from March 31, 1913 to April 16, 1938. It depicts the McGinis family, Aloysius, Clarice, their daughter Julie, and their housekeeper Bella Donna, who struggle to "keep up" with the lifestyle of their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.

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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. The phrase originated in a comic strip of the same name.

Exemplos do corpo de texto para keep up with the Joneses
1. It is no longer enough to keep up with the Joneses.
2. To keep up with the Joneses, we spend a vast proportion of our income on things we don‘t need.
3. But it depends crucially on whether a person is able to "keep up with the Joneses", or rather overtake them.
4. People are getting themselves into debt to replicate the lifestyles of Hello! covergirls like Kate Middleton Once their ambition was to keep up with the Joneses.
5. Mr Irvine, who has lived with his wife Karen in New Jersey for 10 years, said: "I met people with all this money, it was like trying to keep up with the Joneses.