lion's share

English

Etymology

From the Aesop's fable The Lion's Share, in which a lion claims the full amount of the spoil after hunting with a number of other beasts.

Noun

lion's share (plural lion's shares or lions' shares)

1. (idiomatic) The majority; a large or generous portion.

   They got a large donation, but the lion's share of the money went straight into paying off debt.

   • 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, BBC:

     Yet it could have been so different for Tony Pulis's side, who weathered a good start by the hosts to create the lion's share of what few first-half chances came along.

Translations

A generous portion

• Armenian: առյուծի բաժին (hy) (aṙyuci bažin) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絕大部分 (cmn), 绝大部分 (cmn) (juédà bùfèn), 獅子那一份 (cmn), 狮子那一份 (cmn) (shīzi nà yī fèn)

• Czech: lví podíl m
• Dutch: leeuwendeel (nl) n
• Esperanto: leonoporcio (eo)
• Faroese: bróðurpartur (fo) m
• Finnish: leijonanosa
• French: part du lion (fr) f
• German: Löwenanteil (de) m
• Greek: μερίδα του λέοντος (el) (merída tou léontos) f 

• Hungarian: oroszlánrész (hu)
• Italian: la parte del leone (it)
• Japanese: 獅子の分け前 (ja) (ししのわけまえ, shishi-no wakemae), 旨い汁 (ja) (うまいしる, umai-shiru)
• Norwegian: brorpart (no) m
• Polish: lwia część (pl) m
• Russian: львиная доля (ru) (l'vínaja dólja) f 
• Spanish: tajada del león (es) f
• Swedish: lejonpart (sv) c
• Telugu: సింహభాగం (siMhabhaagaM)
• Ukrainian: левова частка (uk) (levova častka)