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vb. (present participle of keep up with the Joneses English)
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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.
Keeping up with the Joneses is an Australian reality television series that follows the life of a family on a Cattle Station, Coolibah,600 km south-west of Darwin, Northern Territory. The show follows the daily lives of the Jones family as they muster cattle, fight fires, battle floods and even wrestle crocodiles. This raw and humorous snapshot of family life shows just what it takes to live in the outback.
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Keeping Up with the Joneses is an upcoming 2016 American action comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur. The film stars Jon Hamm, Zach Galifianakis, Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher and Maribeth Monroe. The film is scheduled to be released on October 21, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.
" Keeping up with the Joneses" is an English idiom for trying to match the lifestyle of one's neighbors.
Keeping up with the Joneses may also refer to:
- Keeping Up with the Joneses (comics), a comic strip by Pop Momand that originated the phrase
- Keeping Up with the Joneses (film), a 2016 American film
- Keeping up with the Joneses (TV series), a 2010–2011 Australian reality series
Keeping Up with the Joneses was a comic strip by Pop Momand that ran from 1913 to 1938. It depicts the McGinis family, Aloysius, Clarice, their daughter Julie, and their housekeeper Bella Donna, who struggle to "keep up" with the lifestyle neighbors, the unseen Joneses. The comic popularized the well-known catchphrase keeping up with the Joneses, referring to people's tendency to judge their own social standing according to that of their neighbors.
Usage examples of "keeping up with the joneses".
Eastern religions, pride, and keeping up with the Joneses--I guess nothing much has changed since his time.
I can casually strike a chord or two, while admiring the instrument, and discover if the foggy, catarrhal note of an unused instrument tells the tale of pretension, of keeping up with the Joneses.
We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses.
Droffs had had difficulty in keeping up with the Joneses, so to speak.