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they don't make them like that anymore en · X

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1. (idiomatic, of a person) Expressing such notions as that the person referred to is excellent and that owing to the decline of society, such people have become rarer; the old school was better; the youth today lack something that previous generations had more of; all the good ones are taken; and so on.
   • A: What a guardian angel that guy was to so many people. B: Yup. They don't make them like that anymore.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see they, don't, make, them, like, that, anymore: the model of vehicle, machine, or device exemplified by the instance under discussion is no longer manufactured.
   • She's got whitewall tires and suicide doors / Under the hood, got a four-fifty-four / Well, they don't make 'em like that no more / Not since nineteen seventy-four / Big cars / Yeah, I like big cars 2002, Heather Myles, “Big Cars”, in Sweet Talk and Good Lies, performed by Heather Myles:

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