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Cliché: They don’t make them like they used to
No matter your age, there’s a high possibility that you’ve used the phrase they don’t make ’em like they used to.
You may think that some things were better when you were young, no matter how old you are.
They don’t make them like they used to is a term used to describe modern products as being less high-quality than products from years ago.
These days, everything seems to have a limited life, planned obsolescence, I think they call it, and today’s gadgets don’t seem to be made to last for a long time.
Remember when you could drop your cell phone out of the car window (while the car was moving, of course – Murphy’s law), go back, pick it up, AND IT STILL WORKED?
Just try dropping a new smartphone from a moving vehicle – they don’t make them like they used to.
I want to add something here.
You will often see the ‘them’ in today’s cliché written as an abbreviation – ’em.
This is because when people say ‘them,’ the pronunciation is quite often ’em.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 79.
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