Let Nick Clegg be clear: "The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government, and a brain to a Labour one!" Unfortunately, courage for the cowardly lion will be a casualty of any coalition agreement.
"It's one thing to let the lion prowl around your stock pen, it's another to open the gate and let him in," he said.
His piss-take of George Galloway's Cantona-eque concession speech ("The hyena can bounce on the lion's grave, but it can never be a lion …") brilliantly combines dopeyness and disdain.
On the way to hospital, she remembered she'd been taking a picture when it happened – she looked on her cellphone and there it was: me, holding the fish, and a sea lion mid-air, its mouth around my hand.
It is why they eventually overthrew her, a lion surrounded by hamsters – but the hamsters always win in the end, as one of them, John Biffen, said.
"Wild animal like tiger, lion etc – 82 rupees," said the ferry ticket board.
The "Scottish lion", he declared, had "roared", producing a swing "the like of which [had] not been seen in recorded politics".
On the menu will be two elephants, two buffaloes, two sable antelopes, five impalas and a lion kindly donated by a local farmer.
But Demirtas responded to those barbs with trademark serenity, challenging Erdogan by saying: "We, as the HDP, will transform the lion in your heart to a kitten".
It reminded me that in parts of the West Indies, there is a fair proportion of overseas visitors who would make the newly well-inked Flints - bless his youthful lion heart - look like Little Lord Fauntleroy.
But then, in the next breath, he says he never feels weighed down by gravity when he walks down the street, that he reads the Bible and the spirit breathes life into him, that he has a recurring dream where he has a gold crown, and he's sitting under a tree, with a lion under one arm and a lioness under the other.
