the sizzle of bacon
2 to make the sound of food frying:
fig. This movie sizzles with excitement.
fig. Their reporting lacks sizzle (= excitement).
I sizzled for a while.
What's bright blue, pink, and sizzles?
If we did that, things would begin to sizzle.
Sponsorship is the sizzle, but it can never be the steak.
Few can make words so obligingly sizzle and flash, so clearly light up the landscape of suburbia.
A demo prepared at an early stage, normally using amateur equipment, is also known as a sizzle script.
The eight percussionists play nontraditional instruments such as iron chains, flexatones, pot lids, sizzle cymbals, metal thunder sheets, log drums, and wind machines.
Warm earth tones glow from the deepest layers, sizzle when they touch cold, grey areas, and set light to others.