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bring home the bacon

1. To earn money, as from steady employment. The phrase may originate from the fairground contest in which participants try to catch a greased pig in order to win it. Now that I have a full-time job, I'm bringing home the bacon!My wife brings home the bacon, while I watch the kids.
2. To be successful. After so many losing seasons, we definitely need a new quarterback—someone who can really bring home the bacon.
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bring home the bacon

Fig. to earn a salary; to bring home money earned at a job. I've got to get to work if I'm going to bring home the bacon.Go out and get a job so you can bring home the bacon.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

bring home the bacon

1. Earn a living, provide the necessities of life, as in Now that she had a job, Patricia could bring home the bacon.
2. Be successful, accomplish something of value, as in George went to Washington and brought home the bacon-he got the funding we needed. Although the earliest citation for this phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1924, the term is widely believed to come from the much older game of catching a greased pig, a popular competition at country fairs in which the winner was awarded the pig.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

bring home the bacon

1. The person in a family who brings home the bacon is the person who goes out to work and earns money for the family. Sadly, we can't both stay at home and look after the kids — someone needs to bring home the bacon.In the past, husbands needed someone to cook and keep house and wives needed someone to bring home the bacon.
2. In sport, if someone brings home the bacon, they win or do very well. Reid and Duffield showed that they and other jockeys like them are capable of bringing home the bacon in style.The team is still top of the Premiership league, in prime position to bring home the bacon. Note: In the past, large pieces of bacon or even whole pigs were sometimes given as prizes in competitions.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

bring home the bacon

1 supply material provision or support. 2 achieve success. informal
This phrase probably derives from the much earlier save your bacon , recorded from the mid 17th century. In early use bacon also referred to fresh pork, the meat most readily available to rural people.
21997SpectatorMr Montgomery was able to sack Mr Hargreaves , who had evidently not brought home the bacon.
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bring home the ˈbacon

(informal) be successful in something; be the person who earns money for a family, an organization, etc: The firm wants very much to get this contract, and we're expecting you to bring home the bacon.He's the one who brings home the bacon, not his wife.
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bring home the bacon

2. To achieve desired results; have success.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

bring home the bacon, to

To succeed, to come back with something of value. The term most likely comes from the sport of catching a greased pig, popular at county fairs, where the winner was awarded the pig. However, Dr. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer believed it might come from a much older practice, instituted as far back as the early twelfth century and revived by Robert Fitzwalter in 1244. This baron willed that a side of bacon be given to any married person who would travel to Dunmow, kneel on two sharp stones at the church door, and swear that for at least a year and a day there had been no fighting in his marriage and no wish to be unmarried.
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
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Difficulty: NoviceRequirements: EasyLength: Medium

Start location: The pig farm north of Port Sarim, speak to Eli Bacon.

Requirements:

Skills: Level 14 Construction, Level 14 Farming, Level 14 Summoning

Items: 5 Wheat.

Suggested:

Access to the Lodestone Network for easy access to Lumbridge, Varrock, Ardougne and Falador (or runes/teletabs for those locations), and an Explorer's ring 3 is useful.

NPCs:Bacon addict, Eli, Martin the Master Gardener, Pickpocket Andy, Pickpocket Bert, Pickpocket Chris, Pickpocket Dan, Pickpocket Edd The last sentinel mac os.

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Eli at his pig farm.

1. Speak to Eli and he will tell you about his new discovery. He will give you some mysterious meat and ask you to taste it. Eat the meat and speak to him again, it doesn't matter which option you choose.

2. Observatory: a vr variety pack mac os. After speaking to Eli, you will learn that the mysterious meat is actually bacon. He devises a plan to make bacon popular, but to do this more pigs are needed. A cutscene begins, showing bacon addicts trying to eat the pigs! Vuescan 9 5 72 download free.

3. Eli will tell you that he needs to get the pigs to a safe place and that the bacon addicts will need to be distracted. He'll give you 9 planks and a bacon heap to make some decoy wooden pigs. Build three decoy pigs, one at each hotspot. Keep adding bacon to the decoy pigs and the bacon addicts will be distracted, allowing Eli to take the pigs down into the storm cellar.

4. Once all of the pigs have been led away safely, you'll need to go down into the storm cellar. The entrance to the cellar is located in the south-east corner of the pig pen. Go down into the cellar and talk to Eli. He will ask you if you can think of anything useful a pig could do. This has no negative effect to the outcome of the quest, no matter which option you pick.

5. Eli wants to train a pig, so he asks you to get a piglet. Go to Draynor Village marketplace and talk to Martin the Master Gardener. Martin will ask you to do him a favour in return for a piglet. Someone has been picking his pockets so he wants you to find out who. Revenge of a son mac os. One of the suspects will be lying about where he was when it happened. North-west of the marketplace you will see the five suspects: Pickpockets Andy, Bert, Chris, Dan and Edd.

6. Talk to each of the pickpockets and ask where they were when Martin was pickpocketed. They will all say they were with another pickpocket. There will be be two pairs of matching answers, the answer that doesn't match is a lie. The culprit differs from player to player. Once you know the culprit, accuse him and watch the cutscene that shows the pickpocket getting taught a lesson, while you enjoy watching a cute piglet and an adorable kitten hopping and rolling around with each other.

7. Martin will now give you a piglet. Head back and talk to Eli in the cellar. He takes the piglet from you so you can get started working on making a machine to train the pig. Eli will give you 6 planks, 10 steel nails and 2 iron bars. Build the machine and upgrade it by clicking on the hotspot.

8. Speak to Eli again, and he'll say that the piglet needs fattening up. Give Eli 5 wheat to feed the pig (if you need some wheat, there is a wheat field just south-east of Draynor Lodestone).

9. The pig still needs to grow and Eli suggests giving it some exercise in the field above the cellar, but that is full of bacon addicts. Climb out of the cellar and Eli will give you a bacon heap and sleeping potion. Add bacon and then sleeping potion to the decoy pigs by clicking on them. They eat the bacon, but they don't fall asleep so go back and speak to Eli.

10. Eli tells you that he needs you to go and pick 5 onions. Nearby onion patches include south of Draynor bank and east of Melzar's Maze. You need to pick the onions, he will not accept onions that you have brought with you prior to him asking for them. Speak to Eli again and he will take the onions from you.

11. Now it's time to train the pig. Click on the machine to start the process and watch the cutscene that follows. 7 sins game online. Talk to Eli who will tell you that he wants you to show off the pig in the following locations (it's recommended that you use Lodestones to travel there):

  • Lumbridge Castle courtyard
  • Varrock Marketplace
  • Ardougne Marketplace
  • Near the north Falador gate

Eli gives you the pig and pig display list. The list can be used as a reminder of where to take the pig in case you forget.

12. Visit all four locations and at each location a small cutscene will follow of you showing off your pig to the local people. After you've shown off your pig in each of the four locations, return and speak to Eli. Congratulations, quest complete!

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Reward

  • 350 Farming XP
  • 350 Construction XP
  • 350 Summoning XP
  • Customisable pet pig
  • Three types of pig familiar
  • Weekly bacon or familiar reward
  • Unlocked the song 'Glutton for Nourishment'
  • 2 Treasure Hunter keys
  • Access to 4 new Pig Pits, which contain attackable pigs for further bacon supplies. These are located at the Falador Farm (used throughout the quest), south of the gem shop in Falador, immediately west of the Varrock lodestone and north west of Ardougne's north bank

Bringing Home The Bacon Meaning

Quest points: 1

Tips, Tricks & Notes

  • If you don't like the name Martin gave the pig, you can change it by talking to Martin.
  • After the quest, you can upgrade the pig machine you built during the quest. Your Summoning, Crafting, and Constructions levels must be level 44. You'll need 3 oak planks, 2 steel bars and at least 3 nails to upgrade it. You will recieve 200 experience. If you have all of those skills to at least level 84, you can upgrade the pig pen to tier 3 by using 3 teak planks, 2 mithril bars and at least 3 nails.
  • The pig can be stored in your player owned house. If you place the prayer pig or the beast of burden pig in the house, you cannot pray or store items in it.
  • Interact with your pig for a funny conversation during or after the quest.

Credits

Written by: Baffler
Special thanks to: Xplozion
Thanks to: War Chipmunk


Last updated: 18-Sep-2013

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