Those are the very words: not a tame lion.

He'll teach you to think he's a tame lion!

It was one of the many tame lions that roam the streets of Cathne by day.

"He was only a tame old lion," said Jane impatiently.

"Jane, my adored Jane, for the sake of your poor father's nerves, don't go leading any more lions about the country, tame or otherwise."

"They let you feed the tame lions," Siembieda informed him.

He was presented with a tame lion with which he might be found playing in his drawing-room.

It's always like that, you can't keep him; it's not as if he were a tame lion.

Is it not said in all the old stories that He is not a tame lion.

Bigger than the tame lion she'd seen in Shalaman's menagerie.