bring home the bacon

Fact is: someone has got to bring home the bacon.

And it's a fact, as you said yourself, that he does bring home the bacon.

Instead, they are working to put pressure on elected officials to bring home the bacon.

For all politicians, bringing home the bacon is an important thing.

The player who still brings home the bacon now forces himself to turn his back.

I guess she'll bring home the bacon in our family."

What matters, he says, is his ability to bring home the bacon to Tennessee.

"The Governor's job is to bring home the bacon and build the economy of the state.

All I know is that you brought home the bacon.'

Instead of obsessing about government waste, bring home the bacon.

Legislators who also serve as mayors say they are better able to bring home the bacon.

It also failed to bring home the bacon, as it were.

And the male who had been bringing home the bacon would be the favored mate.

He expressed a kindly hope that the other's Unknown would bring home the bacon.

Back then, women were suddenly supposed to "bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan."

She could "bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan and never let you forget you're a man!"

Of course, if you don't bring home the bacon by then .

"I like ruthless people who bring home the bacon."

It is a political adage: Bring home the bacon, and the voters will respond.

And boy, did I bring home the bacon today!"

"For whatever it's worth, your shiftless husband's brought home the bacon this time."

This is bringing home the bacon and not the baloney."

His mother, meanwhile, clearly felt herself torn between bringing home the bacon and being there to cook it for her son.

Thus, the expression "bringing home the bacon" has a profound and ancient meaning.

"It's not what you'd call a fulfilling career but it brings home the bacon.