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What (who) is lion's share - definition

IDIOM

Lion's Share; The Lion's Share (fable)

lion's share

Largest portion, greater part.

lion's share

If a person, group, or project gets the lion's share of something, they get the largest part of it, leaving very little for other people.

Military and nuclear research have received the lion's share of public funding.

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Lion's share

The lion's share is an idiomatic expression which now refers to the major share of something. The phrase derives from the plot of a number of fables ascribed to AesopBrewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and is used here as their generic title.

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Lion's share

The lion's share is an idiomatic expression which now refers to the major share of something. The phrase derives from the plot of a number of fables ascribed to Aesop and is used here as their generic title. There are two main types of story, which exist in several different versions. Other fables exist in the East that feature division of prey in such a way that the divider gains the greater part - or even the whole. In English the phrase used in the sense of nearly all only appeared at the end of the 18th century; the French equivalent, le partage du lion, is recorded from the start of that century, following La Fontaine's version of the fable.

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Examples of use of lion's share

1. Q:В How much do the American oil companies expect to get out of this oil?В I understand theyre negotiating for about 66 percent, a lions share of being able to take it over.

2. The incomprehensible unwillingness to apologise for past sins committed in the Balkans in which the Serbs, whether one likes it or not, have the lions share will keep Serbia and the rest of the Balkan countries in certain stagnation, indeed, slaves of the past.