bacon

Everyday

1. Bacon is salty meat from the back or sides of a pig, cut in thin slices and usually fried or grilled. tree →
2. (informal, idiom) To bring home the bacon means to earn money for your family. tree →
3. (informal, idiom) To save someone's bacon means to rescue them from trouble. tree →
4. To want someone's bacon means to be after them, wanting to catch or harm them. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life: breakfast, BLT sandwiches, a full English breakfast; in religion lessons, Jews and Muslims usually do not eat pork, so not bacon; in idioms in stories and talk; also Francis Bacon, a famous English thinker (a name).

Examples

• Dad fried bacon and eggs for breakfast. tree →
• I'd like a bacon sandwich, please. tree →
• Some people do not eat bacon because of their religion. tree →
• You saved my bacon by lending me a pen! tree →
• Grandad worked hard to bring home the bacon. tree →
• Crispy bacon smells delicious. tree →
• But he wants my bacon! gree-ee-ee!" tree →

Note

Uncountable: «some bacon», «a slice/rasher of bacon» (rasher is UK), not «a bacon». Halal and kosher food rules forbid pork.