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whatever sizzles your bacon

whatever sizzles your bacon phrase: synonym of whatever floats your boat.

Phrase

whatever sizzles your bacon

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Synonym of whatever floats your boat.
    • Do what you feel like, and hope that it sticks. If it doesn’t, throw it again. Maybe it sticks the next time over. And if it doesn’t, who cares? It’s just one insignificant life wasted in the vast ocean of lives all around. Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your...2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN, pages 15–16
    • ‘[…] We’ll have a big night out. Whole office. All on me. You make the arrangements.’ / ‘Er . . . what sort of arrangements?’ / ‘What sort of arrangements? Hey, you’re the content guy, right?’ / ‘Er, right.’ Taras said. / ‘So then. Whatever you guys like doing. Whatever sizzles your bacon.[…]’2010 March 4, Penny Rudge, chapter 22, in Foolish Lessons in Life and Love, large print edition, Anstey, Leicestershire: Charnwood, →ISBN, page 157

Examples of whatever sizzles your bacon in a sentence

  • Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…2008 May 14, Karan Bajaj, “It’s All a Waste”, in Keep off the Grass, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India; India Today Group, →ISBN...
  • It’s, like, whatever sizzles your bacon.’2010 October 7, Paul Howard, “Sei parte ormai di me”, in The Oh My God Delusion (Ross O’Carroll-Kelly; 10), Dublin: Penguin Ireland, →ISBN...
  • I myself prefer a good jog, but whatever sizzles your bacon, right?2016 May 31, Jen Crane, chapter 10, in Betrayal Foretold (Descended of Dragons; 3), Carpe Noctem Publishing, →ISBN:

Synonyms of whatever sizzles your bacon

Questions about whatever sizzles your bacon

What does whatever sizzles your bacon mean?
Whatever sizzles your bacon means synonym of whatever floats your boat.
How do you use whatever sizzles your bacon in a sentence?
Whatever floats your boat, whatever melts your butter, whatever humps your camel, whatever sizzles your bacon, whatever tickles your pickle…
What part of speech is whatever sizzles your bacon?
Whatever sizzles your bacon is a phrase.

Words near whatever sizzles your bacon in the dictionary

  1. whatever helps you sleep at night
  2. whatever humps your camel
  3. whatever it takes
  4. whatever melts your butter
  5. whatever next
  6. whatever sizzles your bacon
  7. whatever the case may be
  8. whatever tickles your pickle
  9. whatever will be, will be
  10. whatever winds your clock
  11. whatever you do

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