| 单词 | bring home the bacon |
| 释义 | bring home the baconSEE SYNONYMS FOR bring home the bacon ON THESAURUS.COM Earn a living, provide the necessities of life, as in Now that she had a job, Patricia could bring home the bacon. Be successful, accomplish something of value, as in George went to Washington and brought home the bacon—he got the funding we needed. Although the earliest citation for this phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1924, the term is widely believed to come from the much older game of catching a greased pig, a popular competition at country fairs in which the winner was awarded the pig. Words nearby bring home the baconbring down the curtain, bring down the house, bring forth, bring forward, bring home, bring home the bacon, bring in, bringing-up, bring into line, bring into the world, bring off The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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