The Lion and the Boar an English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables with vocabulary and video to practice listening and reading comprehension and improve your academic vocabulary for advanced learners of English
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The Lion and the Boar
On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a lion and a boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink.
They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat.
When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.
They at once made up their quarrel, saying, “It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of crows or vultures.”
Related idioms, proverbs or phrases
- brawl
- bury the hatchet
- lion’s share
- make friends
- quarrel
- quench thirst
