brings home the bacon
Supports the family
Brings home the bacon means to earn the household income or, more broadly, to achieve success or deliver results.
The phrase evokes a provider returning with essential provisions: She's the one who brings home the bacon in that family.
It can apply beyond finances to any situation where someone accomplishes what was needed: The rookie pitcher brought home the bacon with a shutout.
- earnGain by working
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- idiomaticCharacteristic of natural speech
- incomeRegular monetary receipts
- livelihoodMeans of earning income
hard day's work · provider · breadwinner · support · dependents · earn a living · salary · stability · make ends meet · economy · workforce · rat race · responsibility · meat and potatoes · household · wages · nine to five · on the clock
brings home the baconfreeloads
Takes without reciprocating
mooches · leeches · sponges · bums around · scrounges
brings home the baconfalls short
Fails to meet standard
drops the ball · strikes out · flops · blows it · fails
bring, brings, brought, bringing, homeless, homely, homeland, homeward, homewards