Brewer's: Tail

Lion's tail. Lions, according to legend, wipe out their footsteps with their tail, that they may not be tracked.

Twisting the lion's tail.
(See Twisting.) He has no more tail than a Manx cat. There is a breed of cats in the Isle of Man without tails.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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