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fries someone's bacon

fries someone's bacon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fry someone's bacon.

Meaning of fry someone's bacon

Verb

fry someone's bacon (third-person singular simple present fries someone's bacon, present participle frying someone's bacon, simple past and past participle fried someone's bacon)

  1. (colloquial) To upset or infuriate one; to push one beyond endurance.
    • As upside-down as it seems to most adults, many kids see lying as a respectful, loving, sensitive act if it protects someone they look up to from unpleasant information. I can't imagine where they learned that. And let's not forget about sex. Can I just tell you how much pornography fries my bacon?1999, Jim Hancock, Raising Adults: Getting Kids Ready for the Real World, page 40
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fry, someone's, bacon.

Questions about fries someone's bacon

What is fries someone's bacon the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fries someone's bacon is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fry someone's bacon.

Words near fries someone's bacon in the dictionary

  1. Friern Barnet
  2. friers
  3. Frierson
  4. Friersons
  5. fries
  6. fries someone's bacon
  7. fries up
  8. Friesian
  9. Friesians
  10. Friesic
  11. Friesish

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