Brewer's: King Stork

A tyrant that devours his subjects, and makes them submissive with fear and trembling. The allusion is to the fable of The Frogs desiring a King. (See Log.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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