keeping up with the Joneses

1. 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.”

Idioms and Phrases

see keep up , def. 1.

Example Sentences

The anti-keeping-up-with-the-Joneses approach of the “Ditto” decoration has earned its own brand of attention.

From The Daily Beast