don't give up your day job
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
43
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Somewhat sarcastic but usually good-natured advice used to criticise a person's degree of talent (especially in music or other performing arts), implying that they are unlikely to be successful.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- "When the accounting department's barbershop quartet was warming up, the sales team was ribbing them, yelling, "Don't give up your day job!""
- ""I remember after the school was over," he said, "I went up to the instructor just completely wound up like: ‘O.K. man, how do I do this and become a real racecar driver? I want to quit my job and do this.’ . . . And he goes: ‘Other Sports Beckon. You suck. Don't give up your day job.’ ""