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The beast inside the lion
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A joke that borrows from the Japanese idiom 獅子身中の虫 ("shishi shinchuu no mushi", lit. the parasite inside the lion), which is a metaphor for a person who harms a company or group while inside it (similar to "viper in one's bosom").