bring home the bacon
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Meaning · English
Achieve success.
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner.
FC Copenhagen will have identical twins hoping to bring home the bacon when the Danes come to town for Thursday's European Cup encounter.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Figurative class: Metaphor (PIE-English corpus, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-31).
Common questions
What does “bring home the bacon” mean?
Achieve success.
Is “bring home the bacon” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.