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What Does the Phrase “Bringing Home the Bacon” Mean and Where Did the Expression Come From?

February 8, 2020 by Karen Hill

The thousand-year-old expression “bringing home the bacon” came from a common British competition of trying to catch a greased pig at a country fair.

But the first time it was recorded and entered into modern use in North America was in 1910, when, after her son won a championship fight, Jack Johnson’s mother told the press, “My boy said he’d bring home the bacon.”

From then on, the phrase “bringing home the bacon” meant achieving success.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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