Brewer's: Lions

(The). The lions of a place are sights worth seeing, or the celebrities; so called from the ancient custom of showing strangers, as chief of London sights, the lions at the Tower. The Tower menagerie was abolished in 1834.

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