fry someone's bacon

verb

To upset or infuriate one; to push one beyond endurance.

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Meanings

verbfry 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)

present singular third person fries someone's bacon · participle present frying someone's bacon · participle past fried someone's bacon · past fried someone's bacon

  1. colloquialTo 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.
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