They got a large donation, but the lion’s share of the money went straight into paying off debt.
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Lion's share
/ˈlaɪ.əns ʃɛə/
Synonyms for "lion's share" (20 found)
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Determiner(4 words)
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Noun(2 words)
most human developmentmost magazine-layout
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Determiner(3 words)
most piano duetmost programming language syntaxmost resultant data
Noun(7 words)
most project organizationmost temporary immobilitymost whole-numberprincipal partunfair advantageunjust portionvast majority
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6 entriesbiased allocationdominant portiongreat partmain portionunfair distributionunjust portion
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4 entrieslion's share of fundslion's share of profitslion's share of resourceslion's share of the budget
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9 total sentences available.
In place of dividing the merit of the discovery between the Englishman and the Scotchman, and giving the lion's share to my countryman, I have given the whole merit of the discovery to [Henry] Cavendish the Englishman, and have reserved only for [James] Watt the Scotchman, the merit of the previous hypothesis,—a merit freely given him by Cavendish himself, and one which no other person ever claimed.
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But when a fortunate section of them should begin to win lions' shares of the spoil through superior aptitude for the struggle, can we doubt in what direction the disappointed ones would seek for consolation and support?
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But England suffered great damage, and was put to very heavy expense in compelling restitution. She voluntarily surrendered all claim to the lion's share of the prize, though she certainly did the lion's share of the work, and bore the lion's share of the expense.
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