bacon and eggs
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪkən ənd ɛɡz/
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huevos con tocino
- For breakfast, I ordered the classic dish of bacon and eggs served with toast.
- bacon and eggs breakfast
- eating bacon and eggs
- plate of bacon and eggs
What I said was give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
- What I said was give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
- You eating bacon and eggs, right?
- We have, like, bacon and eggs and sausage and grits and these biscuits that my Aunt TC can like.
Examples
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Bacon and eggs, toast and tea.
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When you wake up, we'll have some nice bacon and eggs.
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Hey, we'll bring you some bacon and eggs, okay?
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Even I can cook bacon and eggs!
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- Here are your bacon and eggs.
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- Let's go and get some bacon and eggs.
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- I prefer bacon and eggs.
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"Laura made bacon and eggs for them a little while ago."
Fiction book (2000) -
Look, I'm going for bacon and eggs.
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We have quite a meal here for you: Bacon and eggs, porridge, orange juice and toast with jam.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This phrase is a naming-by-resemblance: the plant is called 'bacon and eggs' because its flowers' colours/look evoke the food items, so there is a visible link to the constituent words. However the specific referent being a plant (not the food) is not directly derivable from the words alone, so a B1 learner who knows the words would only partially infer the meaning and likely assume the food rather than a botanical species.
Etymology
Bacon and eggs is the name of a simple 'breakfast' dish that comes from serving fried bacon and eggs together—imagine them sizzling in one pan. That's why the phrase means the cooked plate of those two foods.