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Lion’s tail. Lions, according to legend, wipe out their footsteps with their tail, that they may not be tracked.
Twisting the lion’s tail. (See Twisting.)
He has no more tail than a Manx cat. There is a breed of cats in the Isle of Man without tails.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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