Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lion Tamer

(The). Ellen Bright, who exhibited at Wombwell's menagerie, was so called. She was killed by a tiger in 1880, at the age of seventeen.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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