Gosh, what would we do w/out the wiki?
The
Lion's Share is an expression that has come to mean the larger of two amounts, or more often, the largest of several amounts.
The saying derives from one of
Aesop's fables, where the term is actually defined as the complete amount (all of it).
In the fable, a lion, fox, jackal and wolf go hunting, successfully killing a deer. It is divided into four parts with the lion taking the first quarter because he is king of the beasts, the second quarter because he is the arbiter of which animals get what portions of the deer, the third quarter because of his help in catching the deer, and the fourth quarter for his superior strength.
In some variants of the fable, the lion only takes three-quarters of the deer and lets the other animals fight over the remaining quarter.
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If the Lion didn't take 1000 x's, how about 500 x's (or how about 50?) and distributed to the the lowest quartile employees, then perhaps they could afford their own quality health care, a decent place to live, a little retirement and college...but when the janitors and others work full time and can't support their family, then we have larger social/economic/health problems, as we do in the states. then we could shrink the gubmint, services and taxes the way people want because the need would not exist to the extent it does now.
We all know here that after some level of income, you can make your money work for you...well, some people don't get that chance and scrape by and their children have a worse chance then others just because of the family they were born into, while others have the extreme privileges offered by their families.
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