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keeping up with the Joneses
- Striving to achieve or own as much as the people around you: “If you want to keep up with the Joneses in this neighborhood, you will have to own at least three cars.”
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The anti-keeping-up-with-the-Joneses approach of the “Ditto” decoration has earned its own brand of attention.
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