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n. 1 (&lit: English) the lair of a lion 2 (context idiomatic English) any dangerous or frightening place
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Lion's Den may refer to:
The Lion's Den is a mixed martial arts team and training facility that was based out of Lodi, California and San Diego, California but has recently moved its headquarters to Reno, Nevada. The team was founded in the early 1990s by UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock, and was the most dominant fight camp in the early UFC. It featured fighters such as Frank Shamrock, Guy Mezger, Vernon "Tiger" White, Jerry Bohlander, Tra Telligman, Pete Williams, and Mikey Burnett. The Lion's Den now features many new training facilities, including Lion's Den Arizona, Lion's Den Connecticut, and Lion's Den Reno.
Lion's Den was a music club located at 214 Sullivan Street, between Bleecker Street and West 3rd Street, in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1990 and closed in December 2007.
Performers included Ben Folds, Sloan, Howie Day, Keller Williams, New Found Glory, Rachael Sage, Disco Biscuits, The String Cheese Incident, Pharoahe Monch, Dashboard Confessional, Page McConnell, Sister Hazel, Lady Gaga, Soulive and Mordus.
In January 2008, Lion's Den reopened as Sullivan Hall.
"Lion's Den" is an episode of the seventh season of The Outer Limits. It aired on September 8, 2001 and was written and directed by Matt Hastings.
Lion's Den is a 1988 short film directed by Bryan Singer and editor/composer John Ottman. It marks Singer's first film as a director. The film is about five men who meet up at their old hang-out spot after finishing their first semester of college. The film is 25 minutes in length. Ethan Hawke, who had known Bryan Singer as a child in New Jersey, agreed to star in it at the same time he was filming Dad with Jack Lemmon. As well as co-directing, John Ottman. also edited the film.
Lion's Den is a 2008 Argentine drama film directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Pablo Trapero. Addressing motherhood within the prison system, it stars Martina Gusmán, Elli Medeiros and Rodrigo Santoro. The film competed in the Competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
It was Argentina's official submission for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Usage examples of "lion's den".
Tip McLane was coming into the lion's den tonight, which was exactly the kind of situation in which he excelled.
Cadell was here and was home, and, if so, whether this wasn't just walking back into the lion's den.
Atticus motioned that they should join the others in the cafe, even though somehow it felt like walking into a lion's den.
But they were about as likely to launch an assault on Deogiri, that day, as so many giggling mice would attack a lion's den in order to assuage Lord Rat's wounded vanity.
You fucking idiot, you walked right into the lion's den, didn't even look the place over first.
Instead they were entering an artifact, a lion's den of uncertainty, filled with who-knew-what deliberate booby traps.
Walking into Captain Sham's Sailboat Rentals in order to find Aunt Josephine would feel like walking into a lion's den in order to escape from a lion.