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 caste or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.

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Famous quotes containing the words keeping up with and/or keeping:

    I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
    Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)

    He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
    where nobody comes,
    there must be some mystery
    in the air
    about him.
    I am almost afraid to think to myself,
    why,
    he is there.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)