Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the family that sleeps together keeps together

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: the -fam-i-ly that sleep-s -to-geth-er -keep-s -to-geth-er
IPA

70

Scrabble Score

40

Letters

13

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

A supposed motto describing the dynamics of incest.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"In such families incest serves to protect its members against separation anxiety (Eist and Mandel 1968; Gutheil and Avery 1977; Woodbury and Schwartz 1971). Their motto would probably be "The family that sleeps together keeps together.""
"The family that sleeps together keeps together! In short: A bold but academically challenged German undresses an unconscious Valkyrie, and finds it a whole lot scarier than killing a singing dragon."
"Family Theatre's maxim "The family that prays together stays together," could apply to Falcon Crest if "prays" were changed to "preys." “The family that sleeps together keeps together” is another possibility. At least the intermarrying is not as bizarre as it is in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs, in which Siegmund commits both incest and adultery with his married sister, Sieglinde, and their son Siegfried takes his aunt Brünhilde as his wife."

Etymology

Parody of the family that prays together stays together. Originally coined by Hugh Hefner in the 1960s to refer to the way sexual intimacy creates bonds between a married couple, the phrase was adopted by others who reinterpreted it to refer to incest.

Usage

Humorous

Questions

What does the family that sleeps together keeps together mean?: A supposed motto describing the dynamics of incest.
Where does the family that sleeps together keeps together come from?: Parody of the family that prays together stays together. Originally coined by Hugh Hefner in the 1960s to refer to the way sexual intimacy creates bonds between a married couple, the phrase was adopted by others who reinterpreted it to refer to incest.

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