lion's share

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪ.əns ʃɛə/
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• General-American: /ˈlaɪ.ənz ʃɛ(ə)ɹ/
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From Aesop’s fable The Lion's Share, in which a lion claims the full amount of the spoil after hunting with a number of other beasts. In one version of the fable, the lion claims three-quarters of the kill rather than the whole, leaving the three other animals to fight over the remainder.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حِصَّةُ الأَسَد (ḥiṣṣatu l-ʔasad) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Armenian: առյուծի բաժին (aṙyuci bažin) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Belarusian: льві́ная до́ля (lʹvínaja dólja) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Bulgarian: лъ́вски пай (lǎ́vski paj) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Chinese Mandarin: 絕大部分 /绝大部分 (juédà bùfèn) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Chinese Mandarin: 大部分 (dàbùfèn) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Czech: lví podíl — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Danish: broderpart — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Dutch: leeuwendeel — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Esperanto: leonoporcio — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Estonian: lõviosa — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Faroese: bróðurpartur — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Finnish: leijonanosa — the majority; a large or generous portion
• French: part du lion — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Georgian: ლომის წილი (lomis c̣ili) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• German: Löwenanteil — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Greek: μερίδα του λέοντος (merída tou léontos) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Hebrew: חלק הארי (khélek ha-arí) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Hungarian: oroszlánrész — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Italian: parte del leone — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Japanese: 獅子の分け前 (shishi no wakemae) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Japanese: 旨い汁 (umai-shiru) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Japanese: 大部分 (daibubun) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Korean: 사자의 몫 (saja-ui mok) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Korean: 대부분 (daebubun) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Latvian: lauvas tiesa — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Lithuanian: liūto dalis — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Macedonian: лавовски дел (lavovski del) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Norwegian Bokmål: brorpart — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Polish: lwia część — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Portuguese: parte do leão — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Romanian: partea leului — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Russian: льви́ная до́ля (lʹvínaja dólja) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Serbo-Croatian: лавовски део — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Serbo-Croatian: lavovski deo — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Slovak: leví podiel — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Slovene: levji delež — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Spanish: tajada del león — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Swedish: lejonpart — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Telugu: సింహభాగం (siṁhabhāgaṁ) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Turkish: aslan payı — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Ukrainian: ле́вова ча́стка (lévova částka) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Ukrainian: леви́на до́ля (levýna dólja) — the majority; a large or generous portion
• Vietnamese: phần lớn — the majority; a large or generous portion