they don't make them like that anymore

alternative they don't make them like they used to

1. idiomaticExpressing 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