Bring Home The Bacon

Bring home the bacon: To earn money, particularly for one's family; to be successful, especially financially successful.
 
"This phrase’s origin is harder to nail down, but there are two theories that stand out among the rest:

The first theory is that it derived from a tradition called Dunmow Flitch that is still practiced every four years in Great Dunmow, Essex. In 1104, the Prior of Little Dunmow was so impressed with a couple’s devotion to each other that he gave them a side of bacon (also called a flitch). There is no solid proof if this is true, however.

The first time anyone had actually been quoted as using this phrase was in 1906, when Joe Gans won a boxing match. The September 3rd Reno Evening Gazette reported the words of an announcer at the match who read a telegram from Gans’ mother aloud. She wrote, “Everybody says you ought to win. Peter Jackson will tell me the news and you bring back the bacon.”

It’s unclear whether she made it up on the spot or was repeating an already well-known phrase, but there is no hard evidence of this term’s use before that day."

 http://www.gobankingrates.com/bringing-home-the-bacon-origin-of-popular-finance-sayings/

I found another one:
The origin is attributed to a kind of sport that happened during the annual fairs and medieval festivals. They threw a greasy pig up and who caught it took the prize which was, "The sticky pig!"
Source: Why do we say that? by Jack Scholes. Elsevier.

I do not know how you feel about that , but I think these habits are quite disgusting! Winning a piece of pork as a gift? Grabbing a greased pig? No, thanks. I pass!!!

Isn't it funny to think that we work "to bring home the bacon"? What do you think about that?

Your turn!!!
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