One can't help but think that he was like a caged lion and impatient to leave.

He flung himself off of his couch, and began to pace the room, like a restless, caged lion.

Under stress according to one vivid description, he would "pace up and down the bench like a caged lion".

Then he would walk around the hangar again like a caged lion.

Watching him pace around the living room, Jessica was reminded of a caged lion.

They used to say that one paced "like a caged lion".

She walked back and forth until finally her father remarked teasingly, "You're like a caged lion."

"You prowled my rooms like a caged lion, never at ease."

Greg strode up and down in front of the fireplace like a caged lion.

She could hear him pacing to and fro, like a caged lion.