The word "lion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the large, wild cat with a tawny coat and long mane. Example sentence: The lion roared angrily and bared its razor-sharp teeth.
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.
Robert, Sarah and many others around them − all recognisable by the golden lion-shaped badges they were wearing − were not just Tiens patients, but members and distributors already.
7 alleé du Jardin Madame, Villerville, +33 2 3187 2022, bellevue-hotel.fr, doubles from €97 Lion-sur-Mer on the Côte de Nacre, the "pearl coast", resembles an Edward Hopper landscape, with its long sandy beach marked by an archaic lifeguard's lookout.
TV crush "Mr Mitchell, the head in Educating Yorkshire, and Lion-O in Thundercats".
27 rue Bertin, Lion-sur-Mer, +33 2 3123 9866, demeurelevivier.com, doubles from €90 La Villa Marine's rooms may be adequate rather than exciting, but the views are excellent and this quirky address has been recently renovated with a modern bistro specialising in local seafood.
It's important not to have a big goal in mind, to think 'I'm making Lion King here'; just to be truthful and make the musical tell the story you want to tell".
