What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
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Anonymous
| English is not my 1st language. I am still learning. |
Anonymous
| duckduckgo search.... |
Anonymous
I have always thought it came from the three little pigs. |
Anonymous
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This is not the sort of thing most native English speakers know. Most of us just google:
https://jonathanbecher.com/2020/06/14/bring-home-the-bacon/ |
Anonymous
So the phrase was not invented by Kevin Bacon groupies? |
Anonymous
Huh? |
Anonymous
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Back in the days when we were paid in bacon.
The good old days. |
Anonymous
| The origins are probably too old to say, but it generally means earning enough money to feed the members of the household. In other words, support the family. |
Anonymous
We used to be paid in salt, but the cheap Byzantine Empire changed all that. |
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Anonymous
So it has nothing to do with Kevin Bacon groupies? |
Anonymous
Never use Google. Ever. Only use the search engine DuckDuckGo.com You can thank us later. |
Anonymous
Using google allows them to buy and sell you like a cheap |
Anonymous
| Between the years 1908-1910, the US was a hog-based economy. It was brief but glorious. Gold reasserted itself but our language was forever changed. |
Anonymous
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The origin, while lost to time, surely can only be:
Racist |