bring home the bacon

Questions about bring home the bacon

What does bring home the bacon mean?

bring home the bacon means "attain success or reach a desired goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bring home the bacon?

Close synonyms include succeed, win, come through, deliver the goods, provide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bring home the bacon a common word?

bring home the bacon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.