Idioms related to lion:
- A leopard cannot change its spots
– One cannot change the basic way one is.
- Got a tiger by its tail
– to have become associated with something powerful and potentially dangerous; to have a very difficult problem to solve.
- The lion’s share
– the largest portion of something.
- In the lion’s den
– an unpleasant situation in which a person or group of people criticizes you or your ideas
– very brave; courageous
- beard the lion
– To confront risk or danger head on, especially for the sake of possible personal gain. Refers to a proverb based on a Bible story from I Samuel, in which a shepherd, David, hunts down a lion that stole a lamb, grasps it by the beard, and kills it.