not your father's | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Recently changed, madeunconventionalthroughmodernisation.2001, Leslie Jaye Goff,Get Your IT Career in Gear!,→ISBN, page 3:This isnot your father'scomputer 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.2005, Shoeless Wayne Santos, “Final Fantasy XII”, inGameAxis Unwired, page54:Make no mistake about it, thisain't your dad'sFinal 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.2011, Peter S. Gaytan,For Service to Your Country: The Essential Guide to Getting the Veterans' Benefits You've Earned,→ISBN, page xv:Just as thisisn't your father'sarmy — it's alsonot your father'sVA. The bureaucracy is bigger, the forms have multiplied, the benefits have become more complicated.

Examples:

EN: Oh, it's not your father's.
ES: No son de tu padre.
EN: If it's not your father's place, it'll be another and then another.
ES: Si no fuera su padre, sería otro y si no, otro más.
EN: Maybe you don't know it, ...but this house is not your father's, it's mine.
ES: Quizá lo ignoréis, ...pero esta casa no es de vuestro padre; es mía.
EN: I'm sorry too, but that's not your father's.
ES: Esto no es de su padre.
EN: Well, you're not your father's son, that's for certain. I knew him pretty well.
ES: definitivamente no eres igual a tu padre,yo lo conocia bien.
EN: You got money that's not your father's so you can get Bubber a good lawyer?
ES: ¿ Cuentas con dinero que no sea el de tu padre para conseguirle un buen abogado a Bubber?
EN: You're not your father's daughter for nothing.
ES: No eres mi hija por nada.
EN: Those are not your father's instructions!
ES: ¡Ésas no son las órdenes de su padre!
EN: Even | am not your father's servant to walk along with you.
ES: ¿No puedes caminar un poco lento? - ¡Darse prisa! No soy tu sirviente ... para hacer coincidir los pasos contigo!
EN: It's not your father's decision, it's mine.
ES: No culpes a tu padre. Fue mi decisión.
EN: But you should know that sending you to Paris was my brilliant idea, not your father's.
ES: Pero debes saber que enviarte a París fue mi brillante idea, no de tu padre.
EN: Never mind this, the important thing is that the date is not your father's handwriting...
ES: Eso no importa. Lo importante es que en la fecha no es la escritura de su padre...
EN: You can't do this to meet other people's expectations - not your father's, not your teacher's, not mine.
ES: No lo hagas para satisfacer las expectativas de otras personas. Ni las de tu padre, ni las de tu profesor, ni las mias.
EN: I am not your father's servant!
ES: ¡No soy criado de su padre!
EN: Look, Kel, I know you're not having the best time tonight. But that's not your father's fault, it's mine.
ES: Mira, Kel sé que no te estás divirtiendo mucho esta noche pero eso no es culpa de tu papá sino mía.

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