Answer: True
Explanation:
This expression is based on one of Aesop’s fables. Aesop was a Greek slave who lived between 500 and 600 B.C. People attribute many famous fables to him.
One of these many fables is about a lion. There are several variations of the story. However, in all versions the gist is that the lion asks several other animals to help him hunt.
After they catch their prey, the lion offers to split the kill between them all. He divides it into equal parts, but then gives various reasons why he should keep each part. These include that he is king of the jungle and other reasons involving his strength or superiority.
In the end, the other animals that helped him hunt receive nothing, or a very small part.
The moral of this story is not to trust partnerships with those much more powerful than oneself.
However, even more enduring than this moral is the idiom itself. A lion’s share means the biggest portion since the lion in the story took more than all the other animals.
