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keep up with the joneses 

to strive beyond one's means to keep up socially and financially with others in one's social circle or neighborhood (from the name of a comic strip by Arthur R. Momand)
If I he can't afford a decent meal, he should not keep up with the Joneses.
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jonesy special 

Used while playing pool, if someone sinks a ball they didn't mean to, or sinks a ball in a pocket they weren't going for.

A fluke shot.
*Aubry hits the balls hard and one bounces off 3 cushions before sinking in a pocket he wasn't aiming at.
Everyone else: "Jonesy special!"
jonesy special by theButcher July 19, 2007

The Joneses 

A faceless family thought to be socially and/or financially prosperous; poor folks try to emulate them.
"We livin' off mud pies and piss water, and you spend our life savings on a sable coat?" (20 MINUTES OF HO-SLAPPING COMMENCES). "Bitch, quit trying to keep up with the Joneses."
The Joneses by sexie chocolate October 14, 2004
Jenesys is a beautiful girl she is very caring but does not know how to show it. She cares about this person but no one will never know because she hide it all the time she might of went out with this person or just been a friend with them. She loves going place and will do anything for her love she will find away how to get her love back some kind of way but it will take some time but she also might mad when her crush is talking to another girl but she will act like she don't care
Friend:Hay jenesys how you been
Jenesys:Hay gurlllllll nun much but u looking like a SNACKKK TODAYY
jenesys by Werwwaarfcda March 5, 2019
The blonde default mf from Fortnite
Lmao this Jonesy is so bad a building.
Jonesy by Zoost September 21, 2018