Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

not your father's

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: not y-our -fa-ther's
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Recently changed, made unconventional through modernisation.

Example Sentences

"This is not your father's computer programmer. The days when the typical information technology professional sat in a cubicle all day hunched over a keyboard, a can of Jolt Cola and a half-eaten Twinkie within arm's reach, seem about as quaint now as a genuine whistle-stop political campaign in the mass media age."
"Make no mistake about it, this ain't your dad's Final Fantasy. If you want an effiminate spikey haired main character with amnesia or serious social issues that must shoulder the burden of fighting a great and ancient evil, you're not going to find that here."
"Just as this isn't your father's army — it's also not your father's VA. The bureaucracy is bigger, the forms have multiplied, the benefits have become more complicated."

Etymology

From an advertising slogan for the Oldsmobile car, "this is not your father's Oldsmobile".

Inflected Forms

not your dad's (alternative)

Questions

What does not your father's mean?: Recently changed, made unconventional through modernisation.
Where does not your father's come from?: From an advertising slogan for the Oldsmobile car, "this is not your father's Oldsmobile".

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