generation gap

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[generation gap] {n.}, {informal}, {hackneyed phrase} The difference in social values, philosophies, and manners between children and their parents, teachers and relatives which causes a lack of understanding between them and frequently leads to violent confrontations.

* /My daughter is twenty and I am forty, but we have no generation gap in our family./

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	{informal} ¹⁴⁰¹ {n.} ⁹¹²

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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