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Definition of Bring home the bacon
1. Verb. Attain success or reach a desired goal. "The business is going to bring home the bacon "; "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
Specialized synonyms: Hit, Bring Off, Carry Off, Manage, Negociate, Pull Off, Clear, Pass, Hit The Jackpot, Luck Out, Nail, Nail Down, Peg, Make It, Pass, Run, Act, Work, Pan Out, Accomplish, Achieve, Attain, Reach, Arrive, Get In, Go Far, Make It
Entails: Assay, Attempt, Essay, Seek, Try
Antonyms: Fail
Derivative terms: Succeeder, Winner
2. Verb. Supply means of subsistence; earn a living. "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
Definition of Bring home the bacon
1. Verb. (idiomatic informal) To have a remunerative job; to have a career which satisfies one's financial needs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bring Home The Bacon
Literary usage of Bring home the bacon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mailbag (1918)
"If you start in early you bring home the bacon before the other guy wakes up.
THE ANALYSIS 1. Here is about as striking a statement as could be used to ..."
2. Success in the Small Shop by John Herbert Van Deventer (1918)
"Yet they "bring home the bacon" to the people who use them, and they should be
studied by all small-shop owners who wish to cut out the frills and get down ..."
3. Rawhide Rawlins Stories by Charles Marion Russell (1921)
"When this bunch starts out, armed an' mounted, they sure bring home the bacon.
Meat—I'd tell a man. This cave looks an'smells like a ..."
4. Increasing Production, Decreasing Costs by Charles Underwood Carpenter (1920)
"They are all intensely practical—properly worked out they will absolutely "bring
home the bacon" in the shape of profits every time. 35. ..."
5. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"... and in three hours you should be able to cover quite a stretch of water and
bring home the bacon in the shape of some of the fathers of the bass tribe. ..."
6. The Coming Newspaper edited by Merle Harrold Thorpe (1915)
"If you have those three things to work with, you won't need to be a genius to
write copy that will bring home the bacon. And by the way, I think it was the ..."
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