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IDIOMS

bring home the bacon

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Making, earning money.    This is a "money idiom".

MEANING:

  • The person who earn money for the family "brings home the bacon".
    ​
  • A person who makes money.

  • Successful; financially speaking.​

EXAMPLES:

  1. Bring home the bacon

  2. If we don't bring home the bacon on this sales campaign, the Boss will fire us!

  3. Sue was always one of those people who knew how to bring home the bacon.


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