| 单词 | bring home the bacon |
| 释义 | bring home the bacon (once / 111503 pages) v To bring home the bacon is to earn a living. You might bring home the bacon by working nights at a warehouse and as a school crossing guard by day. There are a lot of guesses about the origin of this phrase, some of them going back to twelfth century England and various traditions and sayings involving bacon. However, to bring home the bacon seems to be a much more recent idiom. The mother of American boxer Joe Gans, in a 1906 telegram in which she urged her son to win a difficult match, made the first recorded use of bring home the bacon, encouraging him to do just that. WORD FAMILYbring home the bacon: bringing home the bacon, brings home the bacon, brought home the bacon USAGE EXAMPLES“You find yourself bringing home the bacon, frying it up in the pan, doing the dishes and then doing the laundry, too.” The Guardian(Nov 08, 2016) As for the man of the house bringing home the bacon, that pattern has been upended. US News(Sep 02, 2016) Perhaps fewer men are working because their wives are bringing home the bacon instead. Washington Post(Jun 20, 2016) 1v supply means of subsistence; earn a living Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon Syn|Hyper provide support support materially or financially 2v attain success or reach a desired goal Syn|Ant|Hypo come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful hit hit the intended target or goal bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull offbe successful; achieve a goal clear, passgo unchallenged; be approved hit the jackpot, luck outsucceed by luck nail, nail down, pegsucceed in obtaining a position make it, passgo successfully through a test or a selection process runmake without a miss act, workhave an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected pan outbe a success accomplish, achieve, attain, reachto gain with effort arrive, get in, go far, make itsucceed in a big way; get to the top scoreget a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance get to, make, progress to, reachreach a goal, e.g., "make the first team" clearpass an inspection or receive authorization ace, breeze through, nail, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep throughsucceed at easily beginachieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative come to, strikeattain culminatereach the highest or most decisive point compassbring about; accomplish averageachieve or reach on average finagle, manage, wangleachieve something by means of trickery or devious methods |
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